“Why don't the men propose, Mamma?
Why don't the men propose?”

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Why don't the Men propose?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer 1797–1839

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