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In the election of a wife, as in
A project of war, to err but once is
To be undone forever.
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?
Marriage is a desperate thing.
We've been together now for forty years,
An' it don't seem a day too much,
There ain't a lady livin' in the land
As I'd "swop" for my dear old Dutch.
Marriage is memory, marriage is time.
Marriage is the tomb of trust and love.
Marriage does not withdraw us from the life we knew; it means that we wade deeper in the stream of it, take the strain of it more boldly than before.
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married.
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