Ideas are, in truth, force.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.Henry James
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I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
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It was as if, at moments, we were perpetually coming into sight of subjects before which we must stop short, turning suddenly out of alleys that we perceived to be blind, closing with a little bang that made us look at each other--for, like all bangs, it was something louder than we had intended--the doors we had indiscreetly opened.
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