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A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
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Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence, it is almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening [to men] without snickering.
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Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead.
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The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.
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A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
H. L. Mencken
Born:
September 12, 1880
Died:
January 29, 1956
(aged 75)
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