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“The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.”
“It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.”
“One man's folly is another man's wife.”
“When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.”
“Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.”
“A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.”
“After a few years of marriage, a man can look right at a woman without seeing her - and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.”
“In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued.”
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