“A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage—but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.”

— Samuel Butler , book The Way of All Flesh

Source: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 75

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novelist 1835–1902

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