| "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness." |
| "Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites" | |
| "When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place" | |
| "To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart-about a finger's breadth-for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule." | |
| "Marriage is the only war where you sleep with the enemy." | |
| "Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife." | |
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