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"No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time."
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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."
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"Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course."

"France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America.""

"A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her."

"Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you."

"A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet."

"It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him."

"There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them."
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