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A MAN who devotes his youth to ambition and cuts out love, finds out
that he has been eating the bread of life without any jam on it.

IT'S so easy for a man to get engaged that he is always disagreeably
surprised when he finds out how difficult it is to get disengaged.

A MAN buttons a woman's dress up the back with almost the same grace and
alacrity that a woman displays in climbing a barbed wire fence.

IT isn't Cupid, but cupidity, that is to blame for those unhappy
international marriages.

A MAN is absolutely certain that a woman is perfectly proper when she
refuses to kiss him because in his simple, childlike vanity he can't
think of any other reason why she shouldn't want to.

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GIVE me a man with a dark brown past--one who has tasted the spice in
life's pudding, and won't begin to long for it the moment he has been
put on the matrimonial diet of bread and milk.

THE man who fancies himself completely understood is as unhappy as the
woman who thinks she is misunderstood.

IF St. Peter is really an old man, no girl over seventeen need apply for
admission to Heaven.

A KISS may be anything from an insult to a benediction; and yet a man
never can understand why a girl is indignant sometimes when she is
kissed and isn't at others.

EVEN a dead husband gives a widow some advantage over an old maid.

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THE kind of wife every man is looking for is one who can peel potatoes
with one hand, curl her hair with the other, rock the cradle with her
foot and accompany herself on the piano.

IT isn't conscience, but the fear of consequences that keeps a man from
trifling with a pretty woman.

POVERTY is a love charm; you never know how great a thing love is until
you haven't anything else in the world.

WOMEN take awful chances in matrimony--because that's the only kind they
get nowadays.

A MAN'S past is always quite past and his dead loves are so dead that he
wouldn't recognize them if he should meet their corpses on the street.

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A MAN always holds a woman at her own valuation; if she sets a high
price on herself he is eager to pay it, but he doesn't want anything
that looks as though it came off a bargain counter.

A MAN always considers himself mighty clever when he can glide through
the shallows of love-making without foundering on the rocks of
matrimony.

CHOOSING a husband is like picking out the combination on a lottery
ticket; your fi