No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to…

H. L. Mencken
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ✨ A Mencken Chrestomathy. Book by H. L. Mencken , as quoted in The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations by Robert Andrews (2003), 1949.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ✨ A Mencken Chrestomathy. Book by H. L. Mencken , as quoted in The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations by Robert Andrews (2003), 1949.

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