"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
"all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on."
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Source: Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House
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