Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
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