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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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Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.
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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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When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.
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Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
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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 fool and her money are soon courted.
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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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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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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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Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it cooing after marriage, he calls it nagging.
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No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
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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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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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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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A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
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A man never knows how to say goodbye a woman never knows when to say it.
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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
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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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