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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‘understand’ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

I’m not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It’s not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.