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The uncommitted life isn't worth living.
The uncommitted life isn't worth living.
Tenderness is a virtue.
Tenderness is a virtue.
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, read more
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
