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No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Helen Rowland
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Helen Rowland
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 1
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
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The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.
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And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
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Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
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Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.
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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
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To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more than merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.
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A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.
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In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
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Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
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A good woman is known by what she does a good man by what he doesn't.
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A man never knows how to say goodbye a woman never knows when to say it.
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A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
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A fool and her money are soon courted.
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There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
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A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart.
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Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?
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