“Domestic happiness is the greatest of things sublunary, and of things celestial it is impossible, perhaps, for unassisted man to believe anything greater; but it is not strange that those things, which, in a pure form of society, will constitute our first blessings, should in its present morbid state be our most perilous temptations. ‘He that doth not love mother or wife less than me, is not worthy of me!’”
- from Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 1 (ed. E.H. Coleridge)
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