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• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed
  maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives....
• Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect. -- Nicolas Chamfo
• O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Song of the Shi...
• The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Paracelsus, Part iv...
• When the fight begins within himself, A man 's worth something.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Men and Women, Bishop Blougram's Apology...
• The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wive
  mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name....
• Men are what their mothers made them. -- Emerso
• Men are what their mothers made them. EMERSON
• Less is more. -- Robert Browning, "Andrea del Sarto