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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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Mary Jane West
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)
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I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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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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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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I speak two languages, Body and English.
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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It's not what you say, but how you say it!
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The curve is more powerful than the sword.
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Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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