Even though he was living in the 1800s when everyone except weird hermits and spinsters got married without ever questioning the convention, Charles Darwin was a man of science. So when he considered taking a wife, he made a list with two columns: Marry and Not Marry. The nerds over at Wired found this list in The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online.
In the anti-marriage column, he listed: freedom to go where one liked, perhaps quarelling, less money for books &c, fatness and idleness, and loss of time [underlined]. Sounds like modern concerns many of us have: Darwin was even afraid of moving to the suburbs: "perhaps my wife won't like London, then the sentence is banishment and degradation into indolent, idle fool."
But Darwin did eventually get married, so here's what he listed in the pro-marriage column.
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