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• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. French Proverb
• It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne...
• It is really insufficient to be simply good, one must also try to be good for something.
  A deaf husband and a blind wife as sure to be a happy couple. You can almost count on it......
• I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne...
• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• The most happy marriage I can picture would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
  -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
• The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
  -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
• The thing in the world I am most of afraid of is fear, and with good reason, that passion alone in the trouble of it exceeding other accidents.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)