"But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest."
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"I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go."
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"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."
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"When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible.""
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"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed."
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"Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty."
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"I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world."
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"You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage."
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"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being."
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"The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give."
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"There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about."
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"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden."
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"A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him."
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"When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married."
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"I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious."
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"The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!"
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"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?"
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"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye."
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"Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?"
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"The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as a bond thrown by society round two people to unite them together for all eternity. Those two must wed each other, whether they will or not, in life after life. Each acquires half of the merit of the other. And if one seems in this life to have fallen hopelessly behind, it is for the other only to wait and beat time, till he or she catches up again!"
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