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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Oh, the secret life of man and woman –dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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