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— Ralph Waldo Emerson"Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes."
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A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.
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