Quote by H.L. Mencken
The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous. – 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. – H.L. Mencken

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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. – H.L. Mencken

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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. – H.L. Mencken

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