"Though matrimony
may have some pains, celibacy has few pleasures," says old Dr. Johnson,
a bachelor. Again says he: "Marriage is the best state for man in
general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for
the married state." "Marriage is an institution," says Sir Richard
Steele "celebrated for a constant scene of as much delight as our being
is capable of."
ONE THING KEEP IN MIND!
When the sages, the critics, and the people who love to say smart
things, paint the infelicities of marriage, they as often paint simply
the general troubles of life, which are common to all people. The
bachelor is more apt to be kept awake by the crying child in the next
chamber than is the father in the same room with the child. The young
man quarrels with his landlady as often as the young husband quarrels
with his wife. The young man notoriously finds his wants as lightly
resting on the memories of those he hires to attend to them as does the
husband of the most careless wife. He cannot escape the sickness of life
with even the good fortune of a married man, according to the
statistics of the Government.
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