"There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative."

Love, Conservatism, Marriage, Relationship

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"There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative."

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