"I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid."
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"Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants."
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"Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."
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"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
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"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?"
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"There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
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"Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness."
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"A hangover is the wrath of grapes."
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"Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both."
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"I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia."
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"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."
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"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
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"I can’t write five words but that I change seven."
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"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
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"Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt."
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"Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life."
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"If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them."
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"If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised."
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"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania."
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"Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord; Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?"
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