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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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Helen Rowland
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 1
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
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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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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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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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Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
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Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.
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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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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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A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
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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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Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.
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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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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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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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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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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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