They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. A bachelor's wife. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
Dead people are free.
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature.