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The Noblest form of Affection

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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Are ALL men bad?Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become go...more

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak ...more

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Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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Men become old but they never become good.

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance.

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One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.