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Helen Rowland
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 1
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
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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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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
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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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Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
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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 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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The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.
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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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Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it
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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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Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.
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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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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 gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
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A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
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Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
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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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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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A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
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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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