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“Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.”
“Any girl can look glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
“It's a man's world, and you men can have it.”
“Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.”
“Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family.”
“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
“He must have killed a lot of people to have gotten so rich.”
“It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.”
“Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: 'Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.'”
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