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" After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. "
Helen Rowland
Marriage
Looking
Man
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" Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. "
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" Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. "
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Down
Life
" It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing. "
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Half
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" And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them. "
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Know
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" There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them. "
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Devil
Nothing
Learn
" A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her. "
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Criticism
Woman
Man
" A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet. "
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Cat
Feet
Him
" It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. "
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Woman
Fool
Man
" You will never win if you never begin. "
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Never
Will
Motivational
" No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time. "
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Woman
Good
Man
" A fool and her money are soon courted. "
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Her
Money
Courted
" It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others. "
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Man
He
Marriage
" Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. "
Helen Rowland
Try
Marriage
Eating
" Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. "
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Home
Right
Right Person
" Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. "
Helen Rowland
Tell
Life
Person
" Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. "
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Fault
Accomplishment
Man
" Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. "
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Miracle
Pleasure
Kiss
" A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. "
Helen Rowland
Boy
He
Never
" When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart. "
Helen Rowland
Heart
Wife
Advice
" Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing. "
Helen Rowland
Lovers
Little
Confession
" It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. "
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Son
Fool
Her
" When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. "
Helen Rowland
Many
Exchanges
Men
" A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.' "
Helen Rowland
Thought
Own
Man
" Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her. "
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Woman
Wedding
Begins
" Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them. "
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Woman
Nature
Forget
" A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. "
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Kiss
Man
First
" Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. "
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Woman
Justification
Sinner
" Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place. "
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Man
You
Time
" The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head. "
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Man
Head
Bald
" There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. "
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Whose
Who
Age