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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
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Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.
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Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.
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Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.
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I’ve been things and I've seen places.
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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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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
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A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you
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Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.
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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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Tira begins to sing I'm No Angel to him as the screen fades: Baby, I can warm you with this love of mine. I'm No Angel. Aw, let me feel my fingers running through your hair, I can give you kisses. . . .
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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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Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
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I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
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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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Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.
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I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness
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