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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
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-- George Carlin The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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