About Men
"A man of straw is worth a woman of gold."
Proverb.
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"There is nothing that disgusts a man
like getting beaten at chess by a woman."
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900), US writer.
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"Anyone can be heroic from time to time,
but a gentleman is something you have to
be all the time. Which isn't easy."
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), Italian playwright and novelist.
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"Can officially confirm that the way to a man's
heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex,
or alluringess of character, but merely the ability
to seem not very interested in him."
Helen Fielding, writer,
Bridget JonesŐ Diary.
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"A hundred men may make an encampment,
but it takes a woman to make a home."
Chinese proverb.
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"It is an ancient contention of my wife that I, in
common with all other men, in any dispute
between a female relative and a tradesman,
side with the tradesman, partly from fear, partly
from masculine clannishness, and most of all
from a desire to stand well with the tradesmen."
Edith Somerville (1858-1949), Irish writer.
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