A Quote by William Congreve
Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.
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A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.
I've had a very strange life. Whenever I've married, I've married for life. But things have gone desperately wrong.
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I wrote this book [ Desperate Marriages] because of my own marriage. My wife and I struggled greatly in the early years of marriage. In spite of the fact that we were Christians before we got married, we prayed about getting married, we believed it was God's will for us to get married, and we still had great struggles.
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