Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Joseph Addison Quotes

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, ...

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, ...

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, ...

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, ...