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" A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide. "
Wife
Woman
Lady
" A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes. "
Death
Gift
Successful
" Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. "
Secrets
Play
Game
" Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. "
Intelligence
Cynicism
Intellectual
" Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. "
Excellent
Place
Which
" If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved. "
Ignore
You
Off
" In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. "
Bad
Taste
Only
" It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. "
Friends
Always
Accept
" Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century. "
Fanfare
Century
20th Century
" The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history. "
History
Today
Name
" The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon. "
Goal
Always
True
" When it gets dark enough you can see the stars. "
Enough
Gets
See
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