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The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

— Heinrich Heine The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984)

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As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 281

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The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

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