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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
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Personal Development

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

"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
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Personal Development

"Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret."
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Personal Development

"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
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"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
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"Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours."
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"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Man

"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
Man

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Friendship

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
Love

"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
Home

"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
Thought

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
Education

"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."
Time

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
Science

"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."
People
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