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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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I am not young enough to know everything.

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The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

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The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mo...more

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.