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A hard man is good to findMeaningA risqué comic play on words on a good man is hard to find. Origin
Another artist who could plausibly have coined the quip was Sophie Tucker ('The last of the red-hot mammas'), who used a good man is hard to find as her signature tune. Phrasefinder is also on
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The Oxford Dictionary of Comic Quotations attributes this to Mae
West (1892 - 1980). It's certainly in her style, although I can't find any source documentation to support the attribution. Which part of the man she preferred to be hard I'll leave to your imagination. 
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