“The priest said to the man who married: “Remember that you are caught for life. This door opens but once. Before this den of matrimony the tracks are all one way.” This was in the nature of a punishment for having married. The theologian felt that the contract of marriage, if not contrary to God’s command, was at least contrary to his advice, and that the married ought to suffer in some way, as a matter of justice. The fact that there could be no divorce, that a mistake could not be corrected, was held up as a warning. At every wedding feast this skeleton stretched its fleshless finger towards bride and groom.”
Is Divorce Wrong? (1889)
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“A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman.”
Un homme ne peut se marier sans avoir étudié l'anatomie et disséqué une femme au moins.
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Reported in Investor's Business Daily (April 9, 2001), A-4.
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“often these women marry or they are ruined some other way.”
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Women As Lovers (1994)