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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike

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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one Im in. So Im no expert on it. – Hillary Clinton

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. – Benjamin Disraeli

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I think like any marriage, especially when youve had divorced parents like myself you want to try even harder to make it work. – Princess Diana

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Id marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that hed be dead within a year. – Bette Davis

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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. – Alexander Smith

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I mean, dont forget the earths about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? – Harold Pinter

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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. – Seneca

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Im leaving the screen because I dont think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that Im elegant on the stage. – Helen Hayes

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