nice girl--but it
isn't until after he's gotten the kiss.

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WHY should matrimony interfere with pleasure in this day of self-rocking
cradles, self-cooking ranges--and self-supporting wives?

MOST men write a love-letter as cautiously as though they were writing
for publication, or fame, or posterity.

THE man who breaks his social engagements with you before marriage, will
break everything from his word to your heart, afterward.

PLATONIC friendship is a ship that starts for Nowhere and nearly always
ends by being wrecked in the port of Love.

TO a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier
drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

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A MAN'S conscience is like his head; it never bothers him until "the
morning after."

A MAN'S shoulders are not always as broad as they're padded.

MEN say they hate anything loud about a woman; it must be disgust that
makes them always turn around to stare after a peroxide blonde.

THE saddest sight on earth is an old bachelor trying to sew on a button
with a blunt needle and a piece of string.

THERE are some men who, before marriage, will risk their lives to pick
up your parasol from in front of a whizzing automobile who wouldn't get
off the sofa after marriage to pick up anything you might drop, from a
hint, to a baby.

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A HUSBAND gets so used to his wife's conversation that after a while it
doesn't interrupt his reading of the newspaper any more than the
plunking in the steam pipes.

OF course men admire a circumspect woman above all things, but they
seldom invite her out to supper.

NOTHING bores a man worse than the devotion of the girl before the last.

IT'S rather sad to see how easily a man gets "that tired feeling" after
a love affair has become a bit stale.

A MAN may send you a gold-handled umbrella with your monogram on it in
diamonds and mean nothing but good-fellowship, but if he offers to put
it up and carry it over you for fear the mist will spoil your feathers
you may be sure he's in love.

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LOVE letters lead to all sorts of complications, but post cards tell no
tales.

ASKING a girl if you may kiss her before doing it is an insulting way of
laying all the responsibility on her.

A MARRIED man thinks that if he concedes to smooth his top hair and
carry a cane he is sufficiently dressy to go out anywhere with his wife.

BRIDEGROOMS have th