It's perfectly useless to ask people why they get married, but I fancy I know the reason, just the same. They may think it is one reason or another, … - Clara Cahill Park

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It's perfectly useless to ask people why they get married, but I fancy I know the reason, just the same. They may think it is one reason or another, but the real reason, to my mind, is an old one: The Eternal Purpose is making use of them to carry on the business of the world.

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About Clara Cahill Park

Clara Cahill Park (July 2, 1868 – October 28, 1951) was an American writer, artist, and social reformer, especially interested in the movement for public pensions for widows with children, as vice-president of the Massachusetts Congress of Mothers.

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Long ago, when the world was young for many of us, we believed in marriage as a great adventure, and if the world has been kind to us and has spared us our ideals, it is still the great adventure upon which some of us have embarked, while others still linger on the shore.
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