"Love is the law of life."
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"Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time."
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"How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive."
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"To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable."
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"That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow."
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"Married people should be best friends; no relationship on earth needs friendship as much as marriage"
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"Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes."
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"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths"
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"The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages."
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"On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable."
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"(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them."
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"Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?"
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"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
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"If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry."
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"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
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"Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three."
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"This is a way to kill a wife with kindness."
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"Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both."
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"Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim."
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"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."
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