For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque
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“For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle…”
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Work
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Year
- 1881
- Length
- 19 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #386
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