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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical.
1917.
Théophile Gautier
Eyes so transparent,
That through them one sees the soul.
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Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
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It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.
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White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.
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With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
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