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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

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We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those w...more

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I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in his, and that having seized hi...more

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If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.