"If marriage be an institution derived from the……" — Unknown Author

"If marriage be an institution derived from the law of nature, then, whatever has a natural tendency to discourage it or to destroy its value, is by the same law prohibited. Hence we may deduce the criminality of fornication, incest, adultery, seduction and other lewdness.."

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if… — Saint Augustine
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. — Edmund Burke
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Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment]. — Nora Roberts
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