Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage …

Joseph Addison
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Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life. ✨ Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). The Spectator, p.324
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