You may depend upon it, that a slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage.

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Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Parental Control of Marriage -- Marriage of Cousins -- Difference of Character, June 10, 1824." Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. J. Murray, 1852.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Parental Control of Marriage -- Marriage of Cousins -- Difference of Character, June 10, 1824." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk. Edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton UP, 1990.