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• Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. -- Edmond Abou
• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Marriage and Single Life...
• Remember there's an "if" in the middle of life.
• The war of life is not to be decided in a single battle.
• Merrill's Second Corollary In the highway of life, the average happening is of about as much true significance as a dead skunk in the middle of the road.
• And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iv, Line 194...
• Life is like a bagel. It's delicious when it's fresh and warm, but often it's just hard.
  The hole in the middle is its great mystery, and yet it wouldn't be a bagel without it....
• Life is like a B-grade movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.
  -- Ted Turne...
• We're about as similar as...two completely dissimilar things in a pod.
  -- Edmund : Duel and Duality...