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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
Get married, but never to a man who is home all day
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
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures
The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men
Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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