"I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them."

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"A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine."

"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."

"I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them."

"On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends."

"O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on."

"The brave love mercy, and delight to save."

"Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose."

"An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse."

"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."

"Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives."

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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."

"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

"I hate women because they always know where things are."

"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"