"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."

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"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."

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Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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Sophocles, Greek Poet

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