"When a man's in love, he at once……" — W. Somerset Maugham

"When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not."

— W. Somerset Maugham

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