Quotation by

Samuel Pepys

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Samuel Pepys

Wedding

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Samuel Pepys is observing a wedding and finds it odd that married people feel a kind of pleasure watching others get tricked into marriage. He refers to the newlyweds as "poor fools," implying that marriage is a difficult or regrettable situation that only those already in it can understand.

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