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

Marriage, Community, State

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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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"The real reason a husband and wife always fight is because they always focus on the ugliness in each other and have forgotten to focus on the beauties that attracted them at first."

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

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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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"I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman."

George W. Bush, American President

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"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'."

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"We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise."

Raquel Welch, American Actress

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"A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not."

Dalton Trumbo, American Novelist

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

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"Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."

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"You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!"

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"Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking."

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"NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi."

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"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."

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"Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity."

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"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."

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"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."

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