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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

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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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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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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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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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Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom i...more

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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself,...more

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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curi...more