"Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy"

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

Source: Walden (1854)

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

Source: Emma (1815)

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Source: Following the Equator, ch. 48 (1897)

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

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