"A single man has not nearly the..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.”
“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”
“No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.”
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“My husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentrates he can help his team. If the team is in trouble, he coaches the players from our living room, and if they're really in trouble, I have to get off the phone in case they call him.”
“I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.”
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“Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.”
“I think that the idea of finding another person to share your life with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life. And yes, living your dreams is so important too, and a lot of times I’ve put that before everything else. But then you get to a place where the whole time you’re living these dreams, you look beside you to say to someone, “Hey, isn’t this so much fun?” And if there’s no one there to say it to, what’s the point?”
“By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.”