Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard Shaw
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- Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
- Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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