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Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
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Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.
"I don't know," she said. "Just wait on tables and try to get along." She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told her not to yawn. I tried to tell her how excited I was about life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days. She turned away wearily. We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad.
It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.
Gentlemen, to the lady without whom I should never have survived for eighty, nor sixty, nor yet thirty years. Her smile has been my lyric, her understanding, the rhythm of the stanza. She has been the spring wherefrom I have drawn the power to write the words. She is the poem of my life.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
Woman are like modern paintings. You can't enjoy them, if you try to understand them.
What a wonderful thing a woman is. I can admire what they do even if I don't understand why.
It'll take you eternities to get rid of me, she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her, I want to be chased till eternity till I catch her.
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.