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“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.”

H. L. Mencken · Men

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

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