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“I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Johnsoniana. Seward. 617.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 76cb519252a03721a7ab2e4445c22eccb9202b61d7986a459a9e2bf6eb2d914c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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