"Marry above thy match and you will get a master."
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"Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it."
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"Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess."
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"An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself."
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"Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste."
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"Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived."
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"The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love."
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"Love is who we are without our stories."
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"Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly."
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"What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters"
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"There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance."
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"you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage."
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"the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot."
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"My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end."
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"I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy."
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"Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it."
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"I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing."
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"Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring."
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"Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship."
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"The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband."
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