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I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen. . .

Source: Constant Reader, ch. 22, 1970.
-- Dorothy Parker, (Aug 22 1893-1967), US author, poet, journalist, humorist; She was the celebrated caustic wit of the 1920s; wrote Enough Rope, 1926 and The Little Hours, 1944.

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