"No matter how happily a woman may..." - Quote by H L Mencken
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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“Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.”
“So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!”
“We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.”