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A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

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If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

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Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

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I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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The essence of love is kindness.

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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

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I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

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A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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We loved with a love that was more than love.

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

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Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

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I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

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Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

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

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