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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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One more drink and I'll be under the host.
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Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.
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all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.
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When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
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what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.
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Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
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Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said I do, and I also wash and iron them. I only like two kinds of men domestic and foreign.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.
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