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Helen Rowland
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 1
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
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Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
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It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.
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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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The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
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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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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
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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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At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé at thirty, almost senile at forty, not so old and at fifty, positively skittish.
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the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance
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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 man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
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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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A fool and her money are soon courted.
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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 never knows how to say goodbye a woman never knows when to say it.
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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 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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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
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Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.
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