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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

~Alexander Pope

Topics: Courtship Dream Wake Wedlock

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Marriage has changed Himmanshoo in some ways. Throughout our 10 years of courtship, he was more liberal. But after marriage, he has become a typical Indian husband.

~Amruta Khanvilkar

Topics: After Become Changed Courtship He Husband Indian Liberal Marriage More Our Some Throughout Typical Ways Years

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In a second-class courtesan house, the courtship was much briefer. It could even be one night; usually it went on a little bit longer. But as the years went by, that period of courtship was shorter and shorter.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Bit Could Courtship Even House Little Little Bit Longer Much Night One Night Period Second-Class Years

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I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Above Been By The Time Cable Coffee Courtship Daddy Day Father Fellow Fiction Get Had Having Iowa Lawyer Lunch Office Saying Sent Shop Student Time Wedding Where Workshop You Mrs

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Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.

~Carolyn See

Topics: Chatting Courtship Flirting Life Life Is A Matter

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A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Adventure Battle Century Changed Courtship Daily Daily Life Deemed Definition Escape Genre Included Life Love Love Story Now Only Romance Specifically Story Term 20Th Century 19Th Century

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A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story.

~Diana Galbadon

Topics: Adventure Battle Century Changed Courtship Daily Daily Life Deemed Definition Escape Genre Included Life Love Love Story Now Only Romance Specifically Story Term 20Th Century 19Th Century

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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: About Brothers Building Courtship Early Grandfather Grandparents Grew Indian Lives Our Stories Territory Together Up

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This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

~Emily Murphy

Topics: All The World Courtship Ears Man Over Tongue Woman World

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At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.

~Gene Kelly

Topics: Arm Around Could Courtship Dancing Discovered Girl Only Put Time Way You Your

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