Bk. I, Ch. 9
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The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Source: Wikiquote: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" (Quotes, Elective Affinities (1809))
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