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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'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
"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."
"Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away."
"You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget."
"Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work."
"Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that."
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