"Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?"
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"The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed."
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"What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please."
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"I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women."
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"Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife."
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"People say, 'Why is he bored with her?' Because he's a human being, that's why; same way his wife is bored with him. That is marriage - anything that's supposed to be forever, your going to get bored with it. And there is nothing wrong with it, so don't take it personal; if you are with somebody for ten years and they are not bored with you? Then something is wrong with them."
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"Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself."
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"I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day."
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"I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me."
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"The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff!"
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"I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really."
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"There is no greater treasure than a husband who models godliness before his wife and children on a daily basis."
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"...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job."
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"An obedient wife commands her husband."
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"I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman."
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"If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?"
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"After Sandy hit, my wife and I saw pictures of the devastation following the hurricane in the news. We immediately wanted to find a way to assist those in need."
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"Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same."
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"I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife."
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"Why don't you go home to your wife? Better yet, I'll go home to your wife, and outside of the improvement, she won't notice any difference."
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