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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?
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 man never knows how to say goodbye a woman never knows when to say it.
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A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
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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.
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Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
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Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
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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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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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There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.
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Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.
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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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A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
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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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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
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A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.
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A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
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A fool and her money are soon courted.
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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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