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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.73, Lulu.com
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.