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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
Get married, but never to a man who is home all day
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