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"Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."
"What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."
"When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."
"I have a theory that it is always the women who propose to us, and not we who propose to the women."
"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures."
"Marriage is evidently the dictate of nature; men and women were made to be companions of each other, and therefore I cannot be persuaded but that marriage is one of the means of happiness."
"Such is the common practice of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert their attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty."
"I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children, and those who marry early with their partners."
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