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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Reasons Not To Marry

Charles Darwin, pencilled notes pro and contra marriage, written in 1837 or 1838, quoted in Helge Rubenstein, The Oxford Book of Marriage (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 9:

...cannot read in the evenings...less money for books...

Hat tip: Mrs. Laudator.

Michael Gilleland at 8:24 AM

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