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The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
(John Updike (b. 1932), U.S. author, critic. Couples, ch. 5 (1968).)
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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
(Ellen Key (1849-1926), Swedish author, feminist. "The Morality of Woman," The Morality of Woman and Other Essays (1911).)
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What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Originally published with the vocal score as the libretto for the opera by Virgil Thomson, Music Press (1947). The Mother of Us All, Last Operas and Plays, Rinehart (1949).)
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"Marriage": this I call the will that moves two to create the one which is more than those who created it.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sδmtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 4, p. 90, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part, "On Child and Marriage," (1883).)
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The sweet silent hours of marriage joys.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Richard, in Richard III, act 4, sc. 4, l. 330.
Trying to persuade Queen Elizabeth that he is a fit suitor for her daughter's hand.)
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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
(Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. Ulpianus, Digesta, XL, 9.)
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No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
(Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893), U.S. president. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States, vol. III, p. 429, ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Diary (24 March 1877).
Hayes's predecessor, Ulysses S. Grant, was criticized for nepotism.)
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Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
(Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1740). Mr. B., in Pamela, vol. 2, marriage rule number 21, Riverside (1971).)
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