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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."

"Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away."

"You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget."

"Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work."

"Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy."
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"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me."


"He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views."


"She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises."


"To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task."
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