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I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.