"Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence."
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"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."
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"I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times."
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"Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole." Love expands beyond the limits of two people. Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people."
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"After 7 years of marriage, I am sure of 2 things: First, never wallpaper together and second, you'll need 2 bathrooms . . . both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in."
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"Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other"
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"I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice."
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"Hanging and wiving goes by destiny."
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"A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that."
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"Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength."
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"I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right."
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"We love the things we love for what they are."
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"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
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"Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up."
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"Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried."
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"You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you."
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"Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."
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"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?"
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"Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity."
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"The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity."
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