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قراءة كتاب Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
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an old horse to learn new tricks—but an old man hasn't sense enough not to try.
THE tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
NEVER worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.
A RICH girl need not bother to cultivate the art of conversation in order to be fascinating. Her money will do the talking.
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NOTHING can exceed the grace and tenderness with which men make love—in novels—, except the off-hand commonplaceness with which they do it in real life.
ABOUT the only sign of personal individuality that the average woman is allowed to retain after she marries is her toothbrush.
THERE are just three brands of masculine affection: platonic, which is love without kisses; plutonic, which is kisses without love, and kisses WITH love—which is almost extinct.
OF course women should marry; no home is complete without a husband any more than it is without a cuckoo clock or a cat.
"HOME" is any four walls that enclose the right person.
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NO MAN can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
THE original fox was a man and the original grapes were the girls he couldn't kiss.
A MAN'S desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
IT isn't the girls whom he has loved and lost that a man sighs for; it's those whom he has loved and never won.
LAZY men fancy that the wheel of life is a roulette wheel, on which fortunes are won only by chance.
EVERY time a woman gives a man a piece of her mind she loses a piece of his heart.
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WHEN a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
A MAN never marries when he ought to; he waits until some woman comes along and gets him so tangled up that he has to.
THE shortest way to Heaven or to Hell is via the Love Route, Limited.
IT MAY be bad form for a man to pay his wife compliments and call her pet-names in the presence of other women, but it's awfully good policy.
MANY a foolish runaway match has been prevented by the fact that a girl didn't have on her best silk stockings at the critical moment.
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REMORSE is the feeling a man has when the bottle is empty or he has tired of the girl.
HUSBANDS are like Christmas gifts: you can't choose them; you've just got to sit down and wait until they arrive and then appear perfectly delighted with what you get.
THE beauty of variety in love or wine is that the moment a man discovers a new brand or a new girl, he forgets all about the others and honestly believes that he is tasting the real thing for the first time.
MATRIMONY should not be a prison but a privilege, and husbands and wives should not be jailors but jolliers.
THAT lump which a man feels in his throat when he is about to propose is the "don't" lump.
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A MAN may read everything that ever was written about women and yet not know enough to avoid asking his wife a question when her mouth is full of pins.
THE oftener a man falls in love, the more easily and gracefully he does it; exercise seems to keep the heart in good working condition.
IT IS always a surprise to a woman when her husband sues for $200,000 for the alienation of her affections, which he never seemed to consider worth two cents.
MATRIMONY is a revolving door, round which husband and wife follow one another without ever meeting on the same side of any question.
MARRYING an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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LOVE always must end sooner or later—usually sooner than the girl expected and later than the man intended.
THE woman who insists on playing Solitaire in conversation is likely to end by playing Old Maid.
FROM the number of virtues and accomplishments that a man expects to find in one wife, you'd fancy he was marrying a harem.
DON'T worry for fear you may freeze a man's love out; the colder the wind you blow upon it, the higher you fan the flames.
THE saddest thing about married life is the opportunity it gives two otherwise agreeable people for telling one another the disagreeable truth.
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THERE never was a man big and strong enough to get out his clean shirt and collar and fix the water for his bath.
IT'S when the game becomes a trifle stale that a man begins to feel conscientious qualms about flirting with a woman.
THE woman who pins her faith to a man won't find a safety-pin strong enough to stand the strain.
IN love, the best way to erase one face from the tablet of memory is to draw another across it.
A MAN'S ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.
A MAN may feel like a brute at taking a kiss from a nice girl—but it isn't until after he's gotten the kiss.
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