A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.Henry James
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
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We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
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