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more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
Wedding. A device for exciting envy in women and terror in men.
Wife. One who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.
Widower. One released on parole.
Woman. Before marriage, an agente provocateuse; after marriage, a gendarme.
Women's Club. A place in which the validity of a philosophy is judged by the hat of its prophetess.
Yacht Club. An asylum for landsmen who would rather die of drink than be seasick.
