Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Elizabeth Peters
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Marriage can be likened to a game of chess. It is an uncertain game; the end result depends upon the players’ skill, actions, and what they do with their time. It is not a game in which one side always wins, nor does it offer any guarantee of victory. Such a game would be very boring indeed.

Marriage is like life; every day brings new challenges and new opportunities; good days and bad days; successes and failures; gains and losses; friends and enemies; love and hate; joys and sorrows. The world would be very dull indeed if there were only winners or only losers, if things were always going well or always going badly. Marriage must have an element of chance, but it also depends on two people acting together as equals to achieve the best possible result for themselves, their marriage, their family, their children, their friends, their nation, or humanity itself.

Source: The Mummy Case

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