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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. - Author object (124)

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love - Author object (124)

What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? - Author object (124)

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground. - Author object (124)

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world. - Author object (124)

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. - Author object (124)

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.... - Author object (124)

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. - Author object (124)

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes... - Author object (124)

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it. - Author object (124)

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young. - Author object (124)

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. - Author object (124)

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. - Author object (124)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Author object (124)

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. - Author object (124)

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. - Author object (124)

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one. - Author object (124)

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. - Author object (124)

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real. - Author object (124)

Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping. - Author object (124)