A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Marriage equality changed life for people.
Marriage equality changed life for people.
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been
extracted.
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been
extracted.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are read more
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier read more
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man read more
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
