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The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear th...more

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If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and th...more

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The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his ...more

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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.