erdone chop or an overdone
biscuit will swallow an overdone compliment with the keenest relish.

TOBACCO and love and olives are all acquired tastes; your first smoke
makes you sick, your first olive tastes bitter, and your first love
affair makes you unhappy.

MOST men fancy that being married to a woman means merely seeing her in
the mornings instead of in the evenings.

A REFORMED rake is like a made-over hat or made-over tea--he has lost
his style and his flavor.

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A MAN is always advising his wife to wear common-sense shoes, but that
isn't the kind he turns around in the street to stare after.

IT isn't the man who is willing to stay up late to talk to you, but the
one who is willing to get up early to work for you, that you ought to
waste your powder on.

WHEN a woman is pretty and married an optimistic man can always console
himself with the thought that perhaps she is unhappy because her husband
doesn't appreciate her.

MEN used to marry good cooks and flirt with chorus girls; now they marry
chorus girls and hire good cooks.

IT'S an ill wind that teaches a man the value of hatpins.

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IF WE could all pay the price of matrimony in a lump sum it wouldn't be
so bad; but paying it in daily instalments is what wearies us.

A MARRIED man soon learns enough not to let the barber put lilac water
on his hair; it's wonderful how sharp they get about exciting suspicion.

LOVE always comes to a man as a surprise; he feels like a person who has
been hit in the dark, and his one thought is for a means of escape.

IF THE average husband were half as attentive, solicitous and devoted as
his coachman, there would be fewer scandals of the drawing-room-stable
variety.

FLIRTING is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

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SOME men are such bunglers at love-making that they cannot make a
sentimental remark without tripping over it, or take your hand or a kiss
without making you feel as though they had taken your pocketbook.

THE average man's ideas of what a woman ought to be are as old-fashioned
and set as two china vases on a parlor mantel.

IT takes a mighty dishonorable man not to lie to a woman about where he
saw her husband the night before.

NEAR-LOVE-MAKING is the scientific masculine method of saying a great
deal and promising nothing.

IT'S so hard to reform a man when he hasn't any great fault but just a
little of all of them.

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