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Men Quotes by Robert Graves
- To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to…
- Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.…
- Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering…
- Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome…
- If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
- Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything, But leave the…
- Why do men so eagerly take the leash of marriage into their mouths as if it was going to be just a walk in the…
- Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls Married impossible men? Simple self-sacrifice may be ruled out, And missionary endeavour, nine times out of ten.
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