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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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A fulfilling marriage necessitates experiencing the exhilaration of romance multiple times, each with one's beloved.
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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
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Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
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A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
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We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
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We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
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They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.
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Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.
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Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
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We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
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Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
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We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
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Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.
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A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
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Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
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Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.
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Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
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Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.
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Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
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Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.
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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
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Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
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We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
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Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!
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What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
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Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
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I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.
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If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.
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Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
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The plague of government is senile delinquency.
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No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
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Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
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Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.
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Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
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The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
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Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
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If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.
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Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
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You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
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Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
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Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.
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The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
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Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
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Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.
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What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.
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Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
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