| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 63441 |
| QUOTATION: | To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passionfar less by the white fire of love. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mary Webb (18811927), British novelist. The Golden Arrow, ch. 18 (1916). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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