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The Odyssey · 700 BC
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
The Anatomy of Melancholy · 1621
Some Reflections Upon Marriage · 1700
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The Subjection of Women · 1869
Love...is not a big enough word. It's not a big enough word for how I feel about my wife.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles · 1987
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
The Subjection of Women · 1869
Plutarch's Lives · 119
Pride and Prejudice · 1813
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847
Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.
Physiologie du Mariage · 1829
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890
Bring the Pain · 1996