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  |  | #7018 |   | Everybody is given the same amount of hormones, at birth, and if you want to use yours for growing hair, that's fine with me.
  |    |  | #7019 |   | Farmers in the Iowa State survey rated machinery breakdowns more stressful than divorce. 		-- Wall Street Journal
  |    |  | #7020 |   | Feminists just want the human race to be a tie.
  |    |  | #7021 |   | First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity, no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it. 		-- George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull's Other Island"
  |    |  | #7022 |   | Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. 		-- Helen Rowland
  |    |  | #7023 |   | For a young man, not yet: for an old man, never at all. 		-- Diogenes, asked when a man should marry
  When should a man marry?  A young man, not yet; an elder man, not at all. 		-- Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Marriage and Single Life"
  |    |  | #7024 |   | For I swore I would stay a year away from her; out and alas! but with break of day I went to make supplication. 		-- Paulus Silentarius, c. 540 A.D.
  |    |  | #7025 |   | For thirty years a certain man went to spend every evening with Mme. ___. When his wife died his friends believed he would marry her, and urged him to do so.  "No, no," he said: "if I did, where should I have to spend my evenings?" 		-- Chamfort
  |    |  | #7026 |   | Fortunate is he for whom the belle toils.
  |    |  | #7027 |   | FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN:	#14
  Low Blows: 	Let's say a man and woman are watching a boxing match on TV.  One of the boxers is felled by a low blow.  The woman says "Oh, gee.  That must hurt." The man doubles over and actually FEELS the pain.
  Dressing Up: 	A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, get the mail.   A man will dress up for: weddings, funerals.  Speaking of weddings, when reminiscing about weddings, women talk about "the ceremony".  Men laugh about "the bachelor party".
  David Letterman: 	Men think David Letterman is the funniest man on the face of the Earth.  Women think he is a mean, semi-dorky guy who always has a bad haircut.
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