"Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen."
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"Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal."
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"I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may."
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"Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!"
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"If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage."
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"As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor."
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"Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate."
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"Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion."
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"Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions..."
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"Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals."
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"Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?"
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"Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object."
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"Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim."
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"The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it."
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"The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature."
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"Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it."
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"A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures."
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"I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding."
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"Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage."
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"Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past."
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