Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

Nancy Mitford
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A quote from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". It has been used to mean that while love is the best reason to get married, money is the worst.

Source: Christmas Pudding

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