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I have no wife or children, good or bad, to provide for; a mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from, a common theatre or scene. - Robert Burton A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. - Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank. - Jean de la Bruyere Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. - Henry Louis Mencken Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. - Henry Louis Mencken I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married. - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin) Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore, full well they merit all they feel, and more. - Alexander Pope A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. - Helen Rowland When I said I, would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. - William Shakespeare By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors live like married men. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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