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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
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"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."
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"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
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"Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret."
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"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
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"Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation-a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create."
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"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
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"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
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"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
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"Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours."
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"I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."
Happiness
"For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous."
Woman
"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
Marriage
"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting."
Baby
"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."
Marriage
"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."
Baby
"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
Events
"The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself."
Folly
"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."
Being
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
Defeat
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