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Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

J.M. Barrie

J.M. (James Matthew) Barrie (1860–1937), British playwright. Maggie Shand, in What Every Woman Knows, act 4 (performed 1908, published 1918).

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