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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
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties
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