People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
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Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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