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“Choosing elements for your wedding day should be fun, but these choices won't make any difference in the stuff that matters. For better or worse, you'll end that day married to your partner, and that's the truly exciting part.”
Rachel Hollis
Relationships
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Marriage
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Perspective
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Love
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Commitment
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“Having a baby will put your marriage through the ringer, and if you're lucky, you'll come out the other end stronger for it.”
Rachel Hollis
Relationships
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Challenges
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Growth
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Marriage
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Resilience
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“A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.”
John Grisham
Domestic Violence
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Marriage
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Consequences
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Societal Issues
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Legal Commentary
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“They say a woman marries a man with the belief she can change him, and she can't. A man marries a woman with the belief that she won't change, and she does.”
John Grisham
Relationships
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Marriage
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Change
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Gender Differences
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Societal Expectations
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“Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting – it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Marriage
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Ambition
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Performance
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Life Goals
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Individuality
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“He felt married to her, that was all.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Marriage
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Emotion
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Commitment
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Simplicity
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Relationships
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“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Michel de Montaigne
Marriage
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Humor
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Gender
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Relationships
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Critique
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“We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.”
Michel de Montaigne
Marriage
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Family
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Posterity
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Human Nature
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Societal Impact
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“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”
Michel de Montaigne
Marriage
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Freedom
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Human Relationships
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Critique
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Metaphor
10.
“Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.”
Michel de Montaigne
Marriage
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Risk
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Gender
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Human Nature
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Metaphor
11.
“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”
Michel de Montaigne
Marriage
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Freedom
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Relationships
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Human Nature
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Irony
12.
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
Michel de Montaigne
Marriage
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Friendship
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Love
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Relationships
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Human Connection
13.
“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Marriage
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Monogamy
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Rights
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Responsibilities
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Social Commentary
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“Where there is no love, a person’s faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Love
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Marriage
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Faithfulness
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Human Nature
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Emotional Connection
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“Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Marriage
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Uncertainty
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Relationships
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Deception
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Metaphor
16.
“Since love is a deception practiced by nature, marriage is the attrition of love and must be disillusioning. Only a philosopher can be happy in marriage and philosophers do not marry.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Love
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Marriage
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Deception
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Disillusionment
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Philosophy
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“Even if she could have got so far without a quarrel, still there would have been a great hue and cry about the marriage itself. First, it never happened. Secondly, how could there be a marriage between a princess of the Warrior Caste and a boy of the priestly Brahman Caste? Her readers would have imagined at once that the writer was preaching against our social customs in an underhand way. And they would write letters to the papers.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Class
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Marriage
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Societal Norms
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Critique
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Narrative
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“Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”
W.H. Auden
Marriage
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Romance
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Commitment
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Time
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Emotional Complexity
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“Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.”
W.H. Auden
Marriage
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Love
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Physics
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Cosmic Perspective
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Human Relationships
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“If people marry on the assumption that love must always overcome obstacles, they will either become unfaithful or they will make things difficult. The better you know someone, the better you can torture him: man and wife become each other's devils.”
W.H. Auden
Marriage
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Love
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Obstacles
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Intimacy
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Human Nature
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“Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.”
John Milton
Gender Roles
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Divine Law
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Power
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Marriage
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Patriarchy
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“Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.”
John Milton
Love
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Marriage
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Happiness
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Divine Law
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Human Relationship
23.
“In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.”
John Milton
Marriage
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Companionship
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Divine Purpose
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Conversation
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Happiness
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“Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.”
John Milton
Womanhood
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Domesticity
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Marriage
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Virtue
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Gender Roles
25.
“Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.”
John Milton
Love
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Unity
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Relationship
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Identity
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Marriage
26.
“The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.”
John Milton
Marriage
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Loyalty
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Protection
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Partnership
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Gender Roles
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“The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Friendship
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Marriage
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Loneliness
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Change
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Sherlock Holmes
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“The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Marriage
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Humor
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Odd Behavior
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Domestic Dispute
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Human Quirks
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“It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through – a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Evidence
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Observation
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Marriage
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Detective Work
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Human Nature
30.
“In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.”
Aldous Huxley
Marriage
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Society
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Future
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Cynicism
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Relationships
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Societal Prediction
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