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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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Oscar Wilde quotes on life and death
Oscar Wilde quotes on human failings
Oscar Wilde quotes on foibles