"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."
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"There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman."
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"You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person."
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"You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love "in the bank" to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment."
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"Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known."
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"And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned."
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"Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one."
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"What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that."
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"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest."
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"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."
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"Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization."
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"Happiness is love, nothing else."
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"A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married."
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"I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either."
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"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
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"Two wives? That exceeds the custom."
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"Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences."
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"The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real."
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"I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country."
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"Marriage is a great institution."
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