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The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him. – Gerrit Smith

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It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. – Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary. – Gerrit Smith

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Peace
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True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. – Gerrit Smith

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I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 oclock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill. – Gerrit Smith

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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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I believe its a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is. – Brad Garrett

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Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. – Jean Giraudoux

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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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A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasnt the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman. – Robert Johnson

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