The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Author » Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.