Quote by George Eliot
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. - G

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Death
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But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. – George Eliot

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Dissent
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Im proof against that word failure. Ive seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. – George Eliot

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I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. Its not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but Ill do it because its a moment that will stick with me forever. – Tim Allen

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Love is grand; divorce a hundred grand. – Author Unknown

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Marriage

The marriage state, with or without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life. – Richard Steele, The Spectator

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Adultery is the application of democracy to love. – Henry Louis Mencken, “Sententiae,” A Book of Burlesques, 1920

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