"You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
~ William Faulkner ~












Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean...
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