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"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."
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"Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband."
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"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."
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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
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"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
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"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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"When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his."
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"Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts."
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"After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work."
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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
Music
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
Man
"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness."
Humility
"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."
Wonder
"The post of honour is a private station."
Humility
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."
Music
"There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice."
Advice
"Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies."
Force
"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."
Despair
"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."
People
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