People
In married life affection comes when people thoroughly dislike each other.
— Oscar Wilde · An Ideal Husband
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An editorial interpretation.
This is a wry inversion of what people expect from marriage. Instead of warmth growing from compatibility, the speaker jokes that fondness arrives only once two people have thoroughly disliked each other. It's a paradox played for laughs, treating mutual irritation as the odd doorway to affection.
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