Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit. — Quoted

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“Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.”

Margaret Cavendish · Marriage

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Margaret Cavendish

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Nature

Margaret Cavendish

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

Friendship

Mary Augusta Ward

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Marriage

Samuel Butler

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Marriage