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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 12th, 1880

Died: January 29th, 1956

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