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Quote by Iris Murdoch
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in lov

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. – Iris Murdoch

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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. – Iris Murdoch

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Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. – Madeleine de Scudery

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. – Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath, 1713

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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, theyd never marry. – O. Henry

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