“You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLI : Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast; Helen to Esther
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Short Furrows http://books.google.com/books?id=DCQOAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Never+tell+the+box-office+man+that+you+can't+hear+well+or+he+will+sell+you+a+seat+where+you+can't+see+either%22&pg=PA10#v=onepage (1911).

“If you wish to marry well, inquire well.”
Divorce https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2007/04/divorce, Dallin H. Oaks, April 2007