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.
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Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
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It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
Marriage equality changed life for people.
Marriage equality changed life for people.
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Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
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