"Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with."
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"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."
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"A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night."
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"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."
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"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."
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"a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude"
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"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity."
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"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."
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"If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books."
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"A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld."
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"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."
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"Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all."
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"We have been poisoned by fairy tales."
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"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."
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"At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation."
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"Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."
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"Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it."
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"The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms."
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"Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice."
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"Love is what you've been through with somebody."
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