"Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has."
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"Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more."
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"American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can."
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"Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating."
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"At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher."
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"Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress."
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"Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre."
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"I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others."
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"Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends."
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"I don't remember any blue poodles."
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"What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you."
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"So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it."
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"Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going."
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"Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them."
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"(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child."
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"Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right."
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"If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger."
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"A woman's place is in the wrong."
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"If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on."
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"A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home."
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