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.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their read more
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a lot of overlapping.
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One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
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I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.
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Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
