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Herbert Spencer

"Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."

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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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"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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"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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"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."

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"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."

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

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"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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"I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married."

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