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"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Charlotte Lucas)
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"To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it,
Whenever you’re right, shut up."
Ogden Nash, Marriage Lines: Notes of a Student Husband
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"Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to."J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
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"Being now in her twenty-first year, Maria Bertram was beginning to think matrimony a duty; and as marriage with Mr. Rushworth would give her the enjoyment of a larger income than her father’s, as well as ensure her the house in town, which was now a prime object, it became, by the same rule of moral obligation, her evident duty to marry Mr. Rushworth if she could."Jane Austen, Mansfield Park ch.4
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"Some natural tears they dropped but wiped them soon.The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
They hand in hand with wand’ring steps and slow
Through Eden took their solitary way."
John Milton, Paradise Lost 12.645-9
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