"marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love."
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"Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection."
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"Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine."
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"Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit."
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"At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact."
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"someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then) they said their nevers they slept their dream"
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"Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead."
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"The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else."
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"Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage."
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"Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars."
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"I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying."
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"A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage."
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"Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort."
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"You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!"
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"Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance?"
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"Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain."
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"A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women."
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"Is there stop 'n' go counseling for couples on the run?"
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"I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour."
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"Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'."
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