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"You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her."

"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."
Explore more quotes by Alfred Russel Wallace

"As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways."

"I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind."

"Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race."

"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."

"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."

"To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception."

"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."

"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."

"To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur."
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