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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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"If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations."
People

"What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters."
Marriage

"But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life."
Life

"On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism."
Nature

"Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time."
Time

"In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death."
Death

"To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity."
Religion

"I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain."
Success

"I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong."
Evil

"The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable."
Fact
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