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Now here is another question that young people ought to ask themselves, "How much perfection should you look for in your mate?"

Well, marriage is marriage. It is a day and night affair, one that continues week in and week out, year in and year out, and sometimes as long as one lives, and I believe that our married partner ought to be very nearly perfect in every way to stand the test.

Of course, no one is perfect, and yet the nearer your sweetheart or lover appears to you as perfect the better it is for your happiness. Love glosses over defects. The love in your heart ought to be so strong that your wife ought to appear to you to be just about right, day in and day out, and your husband ought to have so many virtues that you can afford to overlook his faults.

Now one may be too critical and always looking