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"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."
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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."
"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
"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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"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."
"Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?""
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."
"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?"
"Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting."
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