"Marriages are best made of dissimilar material."
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"Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china."
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"Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us."
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"Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being."
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"No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life."
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"Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?"
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"I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat."
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"Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal."
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"In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty."
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"Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness."
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"In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not known the wonderful enjoyment, the blessing of chastity, the happiness of having a chaste, virtuous wife, or a chaste, virtuous husband. These people cannot feel that. And similarly they do not feel the intense jealousy of the chaste wife or husband, or the misery caused by unfaithfulness on either side, with all the heart-burnings and sorrows which believers in chastity experience. On one side, the latter gain happiness, but on the other, they suffer misery too."
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"A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband."
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"What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces."
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"Marriage and sex and money the only living devils."
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"Marriage is an institution very safely guarded."
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"I respect a woman too much to marry her."
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"Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!"
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"He felt married to her, that was all."
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"I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little."
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"I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids."
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