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"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."
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"No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association."
"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it."
"You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget."
"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there."
"I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot."
"If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping."
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"A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
"If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them."
"What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love."
"Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time."
"One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors."
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