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  ...of Marriage
Women sometimes say that they have had no offers, and only wish that some one had ever proposed to them. This is not the right way to put it. What they should say is that though, like all women, they have been proposing to men all their lives, yet they grieve to remember that they have been invariably refused.
Marriage
i
The question of marriage or non-marriage is only the question of whether it is better to be spoiled one way or another.
ii
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.  
iii
Inoculation, or a hair of the dog that is going to bite you--this principle should be introduced in respect of marriage and speculation.
Life and Love
To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
The Basis of Life
We may say what we will, but Life is, au fond, sensual.
Woman Suffrage
I will vote for it when women have left off making a noise in the reading-room of the British Museum, when they leave off wearing...   Butler, Samuel

Excerpt from The Note-Books of Samuel Butler · This quote is tagged Procrastination · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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