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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."
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"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."
Leadership
"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."
Man
"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."
Wisdom
"Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution."
Politics
"I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age."
Age
"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."
Life
"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right."
Truth
"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."
Love
"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth."
Heart
"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera."
People
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