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“Domestic happiness, thou only bliss of Paradise that has surviv'd the fall!”
“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”
“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster which devours everything, that is, familiarity.”
“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
“A man may be a fool and not know it—but not if he is married.”
“Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human offspring.”
“The child has a deep longing for the parent to be there as a human being, not as a role.”
“The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.”
“Not once or twice in our rough island story, the path of duty was the way to glory.”
“When Duty whispers low, Thou must, the youth replies, I can.”