query: the chain of wedlock

[Charles C Rice]

A colleague has asked about the source of the saying:

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and
sometimes three.

It is variously cited as from Heraclitus or from Alexandre Dumas, père or
fils. Wikiquotes gives it to Dumas père but unsourced. Unfortunately I
don't have a copy of YBQ, in which the answer surely resides...

Thanks,
Clai Rice

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