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"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."

"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."

"Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation-a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create."

"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."

"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."

"Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work."

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."

"A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."

"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."
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