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Henry James on Marriage

1843–1916 United States

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There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.

The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

What he thought of her she knew, what he was capable of saying to her she had felt; yet they were married, for all that, and marriage meant that a woman should cleave to the man with whom, uttering tremendous vows, she had stood at the altar.

The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

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