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“Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.”

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Author:John Wilmot

“The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.”

Men Want Should Young Mother Marriage Picks Daughter Young Man Good Mother

Author:J. Ogden Armour

“It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.”

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Book:Heartbreak House

Source: Heartbreak House

“Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.”

Character Mother Quality Marriage Wife Daughter Combination Mother Nature Mother And Daughter

Author:Lu Xun

“An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.”

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Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.”

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Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts