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" Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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" Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. "

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" It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. "

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