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“Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more Perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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Wikiquote: J. R. R. Tolkien
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Context

Letter to his son Michael (March 1941)

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Tolkien, J. R. R.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: J. R. R. Tolkien. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

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