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For Love or Money?(marrying for money)(Brief Article)

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From: Town & Country
Date: 20000201
Author:BERGER, ESTHER M.

Some dream of love and money. Other's marry just for money. As with all of your heart's desires, it pays to know the difference.

"FOR MONEY HAS A POWER above the stars and fate, to manage love," wrote British poet and satirist Samuel Butler. More than 300 years later, his tongue-in-cheek observation on the mores of 17th-century courtship seems equally timely. Indeed, in Year 2000, marrying for love and marrying for money are not mutually exclusive. Our mothers' whispered words of advice -- "It's as easy to fall in love with a rich man as a poor man" -- continue to be taken ...

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