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“Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject — whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.”
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“... it was a great holiness, a religion, as all great loves must be.”
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“Age is a subjective experience, as is time. ... A moment of ecstasy may seem to last beyond its objective measurement on the clock, so may days or weeks of idleness appear to vanish without a trace. It is the same with age — for what is age but time?”
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“A woman may accept every tribute that a chivalrous man may offer to her talent or wit, so long as it is expressed in a hearty spirit of good comradeship, and with a clear and unmistakable deference to her self-respecting dignity; but a well-bred woman will resent as an insult to her womanhood any quasi-sentimental overtures from a man who has not the right to make them.”
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“How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!”
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“... love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.”
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“To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.”
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“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”