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- Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
- The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers…
- I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48.…
- The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
- The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is…
- Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty
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