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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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A man\'s face is his autobiography. A woman\'s face is her work of fiction.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.