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I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

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A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

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Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

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To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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قلت لها إن الناس يجب ألا تتزوج إلا لكي تأتي للعالم بمن هو أفضل... طفل أجمل منك، أغنى منك، أقوى منك. ما جدوى أن يتزوّج الشّقاء من التّعاسة؟ الهباب من الطّين؟ ما الجديد الّذي سنقدّمه للعالم سوى المزيد من البؤس؟ ↗

— أحمد خالد توفيق

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