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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives
Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two
Bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her
To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage
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