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  • 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.

    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.583