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  • Algernon Sydney Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Gore Vidal Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Heinrich Heine Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Samuel Johnson Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mae West Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Groucho Marx Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Billy Connolly Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
    Billy Connolly: The Authorized Version (Pan Books, 1976) by Duncan Campbell
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin Marriage is not merely sharing the fettuccine, but sharing the burden of finding the fettuccine restaurant in the first place.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • J. Selden Marriage is nothing but a civil contract.
    J. Selden
     
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  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
    English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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  • Thomas Love Peacock Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
    Thomas Love Peacock
    English novelist, poet, and official (1785 - 1866)
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  • Jean Kerr Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • Billie Jean King Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Harold Macmillan Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Norman Mailer Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Richard Branson Material things are delightful, but they're not important.
    Richard Branson
    English business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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