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"It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership."
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"Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction."
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"Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends."
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"To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution."
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"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."
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"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
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"I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents."
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"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."
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"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
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"A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy."
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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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"But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep."
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"A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it."
Life
"I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again."
Life
"As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted."
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"My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died."
Home
"The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope."
Hope
"English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century."
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"For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town."
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"It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership."
Marriage
"I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child."
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