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Quote:A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

Author Info:
Quote:Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Author Info:US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)
Quote:Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

Author Info:US editor (1880 – 1956)
Quote:For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe… Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.