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John C. Hawkes

"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."

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"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."

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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

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"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."

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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."

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"What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."

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"Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband."

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"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."

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"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

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

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