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- Bertrand Russell
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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
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-- Countess of Blessington "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
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-- Saint John Chrysostom Property
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
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