"I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not."

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"I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not."

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

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