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No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Comedian
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Playwright
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Singer
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Mary Jane West
Jane West
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Trying
Sarcastic
Witty
Humorous

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One more drink and I'll be under the host.
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.
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It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.
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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.
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I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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I didn't discover curves I only uncovered them.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
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Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present
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I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two that's the meaning of subtraction.
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I like a man what takes his time.
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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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His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
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I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I’ve been things and I've seen places.
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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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The finest woman that ever walked the streets.
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