Two young people who start their life together with only a determination to succeed, avoid criticizing each other's personalities, support each other's work, live within their means, and view life as preparation while facing challenges together through open communication and teamwork have what the passage calls a "royal marriage." The passage asserts that such a marriage will not only succeed in life but also withstand life's difficulties, even after death.
Two young people who start their life together with only a determination to succeed, avoid criticizing each other's personalities, support each other's work, live within their means, and view life as preparation while facing challenges together through open communication and teamwork have what the passage calls a "royal marriage." The passage asserts that such a marriage will not only succeed in life but also withstand life's difficulties, even after death.
Two young people who start their life together with only a determination to succeed, avoid criticizing each other's personalities, support each other's work, live within their means, and view life as preparation while facing challenges together through open communication and teamwork have what the passage calls a "royal marriage." The passage asserts that such a marriage will not only succeed in life but also withstand life's difficulties, even after death.
by Eugene V. Debs Published in Firemen’s Magazine [Terre Haute, IN], vol. 6, no. 3 (March 1882), pg. 124. Unsigned in the original, almost certainly the word of Editor Debs.
When two young people start out in life to-
gether, with nothing but a determination to suc- ceed, avoiding the invasion of each other’s idio- syncrasies, not carrying the candle near the gun- powder, sympathetic with each other’s employ- ment, willing to live on paying as they go, taking life here as a discipline, with four eyes watching its perils and four hands fighting its battles — whatever others may say or do, that is a royal marriage. It is so set down in the heavenly ar- chives, and orange blossoms shall wither on nei- ther side of the grave.
Edited by Tim Davenport
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