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To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Helen Rowland
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Helen Rowland
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 1
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
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What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
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No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree she just naturally becomes a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.
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It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.
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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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Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
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A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.
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