“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 26
“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.”
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Thomas Love Peacock
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Melincourt, chapter VII (1817).
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