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Frances Bruce Strain
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“Like shipboard romances and summer flirtations, college attachments are often impermanent romances, used to lighten the tedium of classroom and laboratory grind.”
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“Good conversation not only stirs ideas and the exchange of ideas, but it gives two persons a more vivid impression of each other.”
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“... the aim of conversation is the exchange of ideas, not the assertion of them.”
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“If girls are highbrow, they must keep it pretty dark. It's a potential sin, and if it is acute, to expose it is sure to make men take to their heels.”
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“Makers of love. What a craft! How delightful to be the weavers of this most enchanting fabric. And who isn't — for loving and being loved is a universal experience.”
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“The wedding night! The comedies, the tragedies, the subterfuges, the unexpecteds, the misunderstandings, the surprises, and the joys! These are the unpublished stories of centuries.”