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Helen Rowland
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 1
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
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Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.
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There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.
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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
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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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A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
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A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.
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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 woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
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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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Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.
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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 bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
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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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A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.
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A man never knows how to say goodbye a woman never knows when to say it.
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Eve had one advantage over all the rest of her sex. In his wildest moments of rage Adam never could accuse her of being 'just like her mother!
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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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The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.
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