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Helen Rowland
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 1
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
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The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
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Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
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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 fool and her money are soon courted.
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A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
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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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A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.
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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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To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.
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The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.
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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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Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
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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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A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
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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 is like a cat chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
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Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion
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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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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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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
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