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“A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.”

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Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”

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Author:Pliny the Elder

“Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.”

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Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.”

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Author:Euripides

“To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.”

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Author:Mary Webb