Quote #13

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

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  1. To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged, is a man's delight;- to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.
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  6. There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
  7. Whom does any body trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to …
  8. The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

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