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"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."
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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
"For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim."
"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
"I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."
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"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."
"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."
"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."
"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."
"We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly."
"The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one."
"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live."
"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."
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