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Mary Wesley

"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."

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"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."

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"There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side."

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"Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling."

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"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."

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"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

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"Successful marriage hinges on the application of knowledge - knowing and understanding God's principles not the exchange of love.. Brother you can be in love all you want but that doesn't make the woman the right person. Same with ladues, you can be head over heels with him but that doesn't make him the right husband.In all your getting, get knowledge and understanding."

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"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."

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"I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse."
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"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."
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"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."
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