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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#grouch #hangs #his #jest #justification

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#beauty #boy #forever #gets #idea

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. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#duplicate #himself #lost #man #may

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#confession #dangerous #dangerous thing #little #lovers

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#after #calls #conscience #follows #his

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#follies #had #his #life #man

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#devil #learn #married #much #nothing