"It is terrible to speak well and be wrong."
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"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about."
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"Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not."
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"Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about."
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"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."
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"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
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"New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions."
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"Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot."
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"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."
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"At least it's better to be married than to be dead."
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"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."
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"Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter."
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"And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!"
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"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep."
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"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures."
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"Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives."
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"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can."
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"I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave."
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"You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty."
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"My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time."
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