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When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.

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It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

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And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

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Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

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Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

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Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself.

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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

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Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight, Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it.

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The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.

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A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

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Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.

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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

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O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

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And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

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