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"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."
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"Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction."
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"Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends."
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"To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution."
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"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."
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"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
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"I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents."
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"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
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"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."
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"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
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"No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes."
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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."
People
"In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained."
Love
"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."
Science
"Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers."
Genius
"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."
Marriage
"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
Art
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
People
"One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors."
Heart
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."
Money
"A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure."
Cure
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