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“Oh, to have the confidence of a mediocre man.”
― The Matchmaker
― The Matchmaker

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”[”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain

“Then she said, ‘You are living in a Mini and when you are not, in fact, in the Mini, you are working on the market to earn money, or you are here at the college, and otherwise you are in the Accrington Public Library reading English Literature in Prose A–Z.’ Yes, that was an accurate summary of my entire life apart from sex.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“When you’re as unhappy as she is, it seeps out toward other people.”
― The Matchmaker
― The Matchmaker

“I can honestly say now that one cannot underestimate the life-changing magic of eight uninterrupted hours of sleep.”
― The Matchmaker
― The Matchmaker
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