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That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

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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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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

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Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

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He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

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Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

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The essence of love is kindness.

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