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Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country Quotes: If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?
         

If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.


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