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- Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
- The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a…
- A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
- Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year…
- Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
- Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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