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"I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty."
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"Even from the point of view of coquetry, pure and simple," he had told her, "can't you see how much of your attraction you throw away when you stoop to lying?"
"I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You aren't good at anything."
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"Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures."
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"Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark."
"It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there."
"This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written."
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