Herbert Spencer Quotes

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Herbert Spencer

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• Fingers
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• Noses

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• I don't have to be that gentleman ["baddest man on the planet"] anymore. Now I have to be "this" guy. And in order to be "this" guy, I have to be smiling, I have to be gregarious, I have to be entertaining, and I have to be friendly. This is what my career needs now. I've adapted. But 20 years from now, I may need a different persona.

  

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• Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Marriage
  • Gentleman
  • Fingers