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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.
When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him read more
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this read more
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of read more
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
