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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she read more
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet read more
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are read more
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who read more
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, read more
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
