Charles Darvin: Marry or Not Marry
(c)Charles Darvin, 1838 (28 y.o.) 
MARRYNOT MARRY
MARRYNOT MARRY
- Children (if it Please God)
- Constant companion (and friend in old age) who will feel interested in one
- Object to be beloved and played with. Better than a dog anyhow
- Home, & someone to take care of house
- Charms of music and female chit-chat
- These things good for one’s health-but terrible loss of time
- My God, it is intolerable to think of spending one’s whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working, and nothing after all-No, no, won’t do
- Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire and books and music perhaps
- Freedom to go where one liked
- Choice of Society and little of it
- Conversation of clever men at clubs
- Not forced to visit relatives and bend in every trifle
- Expense and anxiety of children
- Perhaps quarrelling
- Loss of Time
- Cannot read in the evenings
- Fatness and idleness
- Anxiety and responsibility
- If many children forced to gain one’s bread (But then it is very bad for one’s health to work too much)
- Less money for books etc.