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Marriage is a personal union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock. Marriage is an institution in which interpersonal relationship (usually intimate and sexual) are acknowledged by the state or by religious authority. It is often viewed as a contract. Civil marriage is the legal concept of marriage as a governmental institution, in accordance... full article at wikipedia

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Arnolfini portrait	Jan van Eyck
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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?		Unknown
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.	Clive Staples Lewis
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.	Erica Jong
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.	Henry Fielding
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.	Washington Irving
The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.	Friedrich Nietzsche
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.	Peter De Vries
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.	Ambrose Bierce
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.	Gabriel García Márquez
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.	Stephen Leacock
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