"[M]arriage […] resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
— Marriage

January 1, 1970

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Sydney Smith, quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith by his daughter Lady Holland (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855), Vol. I, ch. 11, p. 415.