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Men Quotes by Peter De Vries
- We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very…
- Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.
- Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.
- I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.
- A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
- Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness
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