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The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person. ”
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ”
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. ”
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. ”
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. ”
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. ”
It is most unwise for people in love to marry. ”
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. ”
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ”
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ”