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“MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“Emma was like all his mistresses; and the charm of novelty, gradually falling away like a garment, laid bare the eternal monotony of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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