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“Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.”

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Johann Gottfried Herder was a German philosopher, born on August 25, 1744, in Halle, Germany, and died on December 18, 1803. He was a significant figure in the German Enlightenment and had a profound impact on German literature and philosophy. more

“This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.”

Source: the bell jar

“There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.”

Ifs Knows World Mind Wells Marriage Taken Wife Design Husband Specifications

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

“Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.”

Men Marriage Subjects Agree Disagree

Book:A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies

Source: A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies

“In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.”

Ifs Would Be Marriage Changed Debt Instance Phrases Accurate Vow Marriage Vows

Author:Sam Ewing

“Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.”

Way Marriage Painful Divorce One Way Expenses Avoiding Publicity Alimony Bigamy

Author:Oliver Herford

“For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.”

Men Marriage Wife Hundred Quarrels

Author:E. W. Howe

“It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!”

Ends Country Facts Half Marriage Lucky Percent Divorce Hey Other Half

Author:Richard Jeni

“It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.”

Men States Together Natural Marriage Men And Women Connections Separation Sufficient Motive Restraint Civilised Being Natural Civilised Society

Author:Samuel Johnson

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