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Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to anothe

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale. – Robert Graves

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What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. – Robert Graves

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