There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
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Will : You didn’t beat me; you ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I’d killed you.
Jack : And that’s no incentive for me to fight fair, is it?
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself
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'The world stands at a parting of the ways and those who suffer know this with deeply anxious hearts. One way leads to destruction. It is the way of the tolerance of cruelty, if not the active engagement in it. It is the way of hunting for sport, the way of vivisection, the way of killing for self-adornment, the way of killing animals for food, the way of making slaves of animals without thought for their happiness and well-being. This is the way the world has been treading.'
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There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.
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If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.
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She would love still, but she would never again be tender till her daughter should have repudiated her base,—her monstrous engagement.
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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
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I don't feel it would be worth it to sever that relationship for anything less than an engagement. It might not be just your money I miss out on, it might be Marlon's as well via Christian, ... at least a karat, size six.
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Top Gun Rules of Engagement
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I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
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