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" The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. "
Oscar Wilde
Makes
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" In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. "
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" Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. "
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