"Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society."
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"Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention."
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"American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse."
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"One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man."
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"The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it."
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"Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth."
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"We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time."
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"Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house."
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"When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act."
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"We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us."
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"Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape."
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"A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations."
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"Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's."
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"You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?"
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"Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret."
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"A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her."
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"The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical."
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"Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature."
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"When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses."
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"Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises."
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