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...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to th...more

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This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexe...more

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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage ...more

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The flowers in the bride’s hand are sadly like the garland which decked the heifers of sacrifice in old times!”“Still, Sue, it is no worse for the wom...more

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People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's ...more

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And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assuredly bel...more

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Life with a man is more businesslike after it, and money matters work better. And then, you see, if you have rows, and he turns you out of doors, you ...more

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I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating that a giver-away should be required at all. Accor...more

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I am certain one ought to be allowed to undo what one has done so ignorantly ! I daresay it happens to lots of women; only they submit, and I kick.......more

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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable ; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it co...more

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It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.

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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

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When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwo...more