"Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position."
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"As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."
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"Caesar's wife should be above suspicion."
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"Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?"
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"A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful."
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"As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep"
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"You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?"
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"I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives."
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"A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches."
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"Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in."
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"Johnny Carson is a comedian who is seen every night in millions of bedrooms all over America...and that's why his last wife left him."
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"I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion."
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"I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again."
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"I gained twenty pounds [during pregnancy of my wife]."
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"A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps."
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"As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our trouble. . . . No Catholic, for instance, takes seriously the text which says that a Bishop should be the husband of one wife."
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"All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives."
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"I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed."
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"The Scripture says that He, the Lord, came walking in the Temple, with His train; I do not know who they were, unless His wives and children; but at any rate they filled the Temple, and how many there were who could not get into the Temple I cannot say. This is the account given by Isaiah, whether he told the truth or not I leave every body to judge for himself."
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"If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people."
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