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It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
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The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood.
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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 curve is more powerful than the sword.
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When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.
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A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.
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Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.
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Men are my life, diamonds are my career.
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Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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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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Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
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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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No gold-digging for me I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
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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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