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No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain

1894

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1894

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 21. Originally from Notebook, c. 1894.

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