A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.
As the wedded pair have given each other power over their bodies, it would be a grave sin for one to refuse either altogether or for a considerable time the fulfilment of the marriage debt.
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