Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. - George Santayana

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Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack sufficient use of reason,' are 'incapable of contracting marriage,' according to canon law.

George Santayana

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