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"Such a mad marriage never was before."
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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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"12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent."
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"I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month."
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"I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget."
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"I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers."
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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
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"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"
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"Books and marriage go ill together."
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"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."
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"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
"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
"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
"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
Events
"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 would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous."
Artist
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
Defeat
"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."
Baby
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