Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Marry or not? Whichever you do, you will repent it.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.

Marriage is indeed a manoeuvring business.