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"Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it."
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"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."

"Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man."

"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul."

"A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected."

"A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it."

"Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality."

"Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true."
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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."

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

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

"It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one."

"When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman."

"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."
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