A small wooden house with an open glowing doorway stands beside a twisting column of windblown leaves in a stormy sepia landscape.

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Mae West

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A cheeky maxim comparing men by location: one kept at home is valued above two loose on the street. The speaker playfully treats companionship as something to be secured close by, with suggestive undertones, rather than left to chance out in public.

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