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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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"Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional."
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"Just as one has no choice but to defecate, one has no choice but to get married. If your mind remains single, then there is no problem. However, one has no choice but marry if the mind is already married."
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"A young man married is a man that's marred."
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"A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are."
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"I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone."
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"Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."
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"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."
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"Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry."
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"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
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"What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage."
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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."
Education
"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong"."
Love
"Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference."
Curiosity
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
Creativity
"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?"
Life
"People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault."
People
"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
Happiness
"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught."
Nothing
"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."
Argument
"When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings."
Emotional
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