"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."
Ellen Key (1849-1926), Swedish writer and feminist.
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"We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and the children start all over again."
Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), French philosopher and historian.
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"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."
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900), US writer and editor.
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"Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul."
Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish poet.
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