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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him
He marries best who puts it off until it is too late
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher
Call no man unhappy until he is married
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory
Love is often a fruit of marriage
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives
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