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It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.

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

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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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

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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set t...more

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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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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