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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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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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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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I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.
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Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
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I didn't discover curves I only uncovered them.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.
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Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.
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A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.
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I like a man what takes his time.
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