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My wife, my child, my music, Nature and the sun; they are my happiness.
A married man seeks to please his wife and not God.
André Maurois Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble) (1918)
I am writing Parsifal only for my wife — if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.
One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
Reduced to the statistical permutations of genes, life became "nothing but" the marriage of chance and selection.
Theodore Roszak The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
Lifelong fidelity is possible, a love that never ends is possible, happiness is possible in marriage, which God himself created and Christ has sanctified.
Love and marriage is a personal thing, it is not who people choose for you, but the person your heart desires.
Stealing a man’s wife, that’s nothing, but stealing his car, that’s larceny.
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