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“The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.”
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- Source:
- Thoughts on Various Subjects.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8d4580cc5f13b339008dff4eb40596affe3880636003123dc4fe72fd385aff31
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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