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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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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
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Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun.
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Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
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Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.
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Flattery will get you everywhere.
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I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.
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Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.
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You are never too old to become younger!
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The best way to behave is to misbehave.
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I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.
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You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.
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No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.
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