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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays, who guards her, or with her the worst endures.” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667

“My husband used to say, that man and wife are equal in love because of their equal claim on each other. I never argued the point with him, but my heart said that devotion never stands in the way of true equality; it only raises the level of the...” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“You—you strange, you almost unearthly thing! —I love as my own flesh. You—poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are—I entreat to accept me as a husband.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.” Thomas Hardy, “Far from the Madding Crowd” - 1874

“A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.” Anthony Trollope, “Phineas Redux” - 1874

“He felt, no doubt, more sorry for her than her indignant relatives; but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.” Edith Wharton, “The Age of Innocence” - 1920

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My Story (1)
Far from the Madding Crowd (1)