The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who ''come out'' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.Cyril Connolly
The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry
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