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Marriage is terrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.
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In the course of time, we grow to love things we hated and hate things we loved.
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Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.
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The length of man's life, which is endless to the brave and busy, is scorned by his ambitious thought.
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There is no cutting of the Gordian knots of life; each must be smilingly unravelled.