Quote by Samuel Butler
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A mans friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. – Samuel Butler

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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

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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. – Oscar Wilde

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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. – Honoré de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage

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There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldnt feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself. – Dionne Warwick

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Marriage? Its like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. – Francoise Sagan

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