Quote by Dorothy Parker
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. - Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new- The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed; The happier, I, to fathom this: A kiss is every other kiss. – Dorothy Parker

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