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"It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate."

"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."

"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."

"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."

"In this regard, Daisy reflected, her marriage to Matthew would not be unlike Lillian's with Westcliff. As two strong-willed people with very different sensibilities, Lillian and Westcliff often argued and negotiated... and yet this didn't seem to weaken their marriage. Quite the opposite, in fact- their union seemed all the better for it.She considered her friends' marriages... Annabelle and Mr. Hunt as a harmony of similar dispositions... Evie and Lord St. Vincent with their opposite natures, as necessary to each other's existence as day and night. It was impossible to say that any of these pairings was superior to the others.Perhaps, in spite of all she had heard about the ideal of a perfect marriage, there was no such thing. Perhaps every marriage was a unique creation."

"Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction."
Explore more quotes by Alexander Pope

"Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice."

"Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men."

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."
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