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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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Mary Jane West
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No gold-digging for me I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
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I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself
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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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I like a man what takes his time.
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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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I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
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The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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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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Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.
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Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?
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I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.
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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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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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