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The Noblest form of Affection

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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reaso...more

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

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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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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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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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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

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Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole object of their lives to be always playing with f...more