"If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal."
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"I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that."
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"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage."
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"I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery."
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"The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him."
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"Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less."
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"I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce."
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"It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity."
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"If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base"
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"What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?"
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"I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."
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"I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement."
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"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."
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"Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'."
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"Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once."
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"The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting."
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"We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out."
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"[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."
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"Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small."
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"I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare."
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