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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Enid Bagnold
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After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

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