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The highest happiness on earth is marriage. every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
-William Lyon Phelps
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The Highest Happiness On Earth Is Marriage.

William Lyon Phelps
The highest happiness on earth is marriage. every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
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Marriage is so unlike everything else. there is something even awful in the nearness it brings. even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. i mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. i know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.
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May this marriage be blessed.may this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.may this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.may this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.may this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.may this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.may this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.listen lovers, now you go on, as i become silent and kiss this blessed night.
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Then my mother shocked me. she said, " all those things that you want from your relationship, liz? i have always wanted those things too." [she] showed me the handful of bullets she'd had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married (and she was happily married...) to my father. "you have to understand how little i was raised to expect that i desired in life, honey. remember- i come from a different time and place... and you have to understand how much i love your father.
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But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. the giver's glance gleams like gold. a golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.
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