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قراءة كتاب Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
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and his flavor.
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A MAN is always advising his wife to wear common-sense shoes, but that isn't the kind he turns around in the street to stare after.
IT isn't the man who is willing to stay up late to talk to you, but the one who is willing to get up early to work for you, that you ought to waste your powder on.
WHEN a woman is pretty and married an optimistic man can always console himself with the thought that perhaps she is unhappy because her husband doesn't appreciate her.
MEN used to marry good cooks and flirt with chorus girls; now they marry chorus girls and hire good cooks.
IT'S an ill wind that teaches a man the value of hatpins.
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IF WE could all pay the price of matrimony in a lump sum it wouldn't be so bad; but paying it in daily instalments is what wearies us.
A MARRIED man soon learns enough not to let the barber put lilac water on his hair; it's wonderful how sharp they get about exciting suspicion.
LOVE always comes to a man as a surprise; he feels like a person who has been hit in the dark, and his one thought is for a means of escape.
IF THE average husband were half as attentive, solicitous and devoted as his coachman, there would be fewer scandals of the drawing-room-stable variety.
FLIRTING is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
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SOME men are such bunglers at love-making that they cannot make a sentimental remark without tripping over it, or take your hand or a kiss without making you feel as though they had taken your pocketbook.
THE average man's ideas of what a woman ought to be are as old-fashioned and set as two china vases on a parlor mantel.
IT takes a mighty dishonorable man not to lie to a woman about where he saw her husband the night before.
NEAR-LOVE-MAKING is the scientific masculine method of saying a great deal and promising nothing.
IT'S so hard to reform a man when he hasn't any great fault but just a little of all of them.
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A MAN who devotes his youth to ambition and cuts out love, finds out that he has been eating the bread of life without any jam on it.
IT'S so easy for a man to get engaged that he is always disagreeably surprised when he finds out how difficult it is to get disengaged.
A MAN buttons a woman's dress up the back with almost the same grace and alacrity that a woman displays in climbing a barbed wire fence.
IT isn't Cupid, but cupidity, that is to blame for those unhappy international marriages.
A MAN is absolutely certain that a woman is perfectly proper when she refuses to kiss him because in his simple, childlike vanity he can't think of any other reason why she shouldn't want to.
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GIVE me a man with a dark brown past—one who has tasted the spice in life's pudding, and won't begin to long for it the moment he has been put on the matrimonial diet of bread and milk.
THE man who fancies himself completely understood is as unhappy as the woman who thinks she is misunderstood.
IF St. Peter is really an old man, no girl over seventeen need apply for admission to Heaven.
A KISS may be anything from an insult to a benediction; and yet a man never can understand why a girl is indignant sometimes when she is kissed and isn't at others.
EVEN a dead husband gives a widow some advantage over an old maid.
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THE kind of wife every man is looking for is one who can peel potatoes with one hand, curl her hair with the other, rock the cradle with her foot and accompany herself on the piano.
IT isn't conscience, but the fear of consequences that keeps a man from trifling with a pretty woman.
POVERTY is a love charm; you never know how great a thing love is until you haven't anything else in the world.
WOMEN take awful chances in matrimony—because that's the only kind they get nowadays.
A MAN'S past is always quite past and his dead loves are so dead that he wouldn't recognize them if he should meet their corpses on the street.
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A MAN always holds a woman at her own valuation; if she sets a high price on herself he is eager to pay it, but he doesn't want anything that looks as though it came off a bargain counter.
A MAN always considers himself mighty clever when he can glide through the shallows of love-making without foundering on the rocks of matrimony.
CHOOSING a husband is like picking out the combination on a lottery ticket; your first guess is apt to be as good as your last.
A MAN'S idea of success is to be able to run his business by touching the electric button at the side of his desk.
MAN is a mysterious chemical combination; add matrimony and you never can tell what he will turn into.
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THERE is nothing which falls with such a dull sickening thud on a man's vanity as his wife's dead silence after he has made one of his characteristically brilliant remarks.
IT IS always a shock
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