Did you ever hear my definition of marriage? It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

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Marriage

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Sydney Smith

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Definition

Language

English

Time

1845 1840s 19th century

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Smith, Sydney. Quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by Saba Holland. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, ch. 11.

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Ada Lovelace

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It happens as with the cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne
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Upon Some Verses of Virgil Essays
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Time
1580 1580s 16th century
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De Montaigne, Michel. "Sur des Vers de Virgile [Upon Some Verses of Virgil]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Some Lines of Virgil." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Baruch Spinoza

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Baruch Spinoza
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Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 3, prop. 26, note.

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Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 3, prop. 26, note.