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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
God

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Wisdom

"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
Thought

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
Money

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
Man

"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
Work

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
Friendship

"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
Truth

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Man
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"Apparently some people (who don't know history) seem to think that marriage 'always has been' exclusively between males and females - and that this modern inequality somehow justifies the enforced continuation of this inequality."
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Personal Development

"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

"Marriage is but a consolidation of resources."
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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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"Husband: a former boyfriend."
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"Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret."
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"It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one."
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"When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman."
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"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
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