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My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

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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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Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

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For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

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I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

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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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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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Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

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What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

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Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

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

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The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.

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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

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... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

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