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"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
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"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."

"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

"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."

"When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his."

"Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts."

"After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work."
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"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
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