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Alice James: I make it...

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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

Source: In The Christian Herald.
-- Alice James, (Aug 7 1848-1892), US diary and letter writer; She kept a withering journal of her life and was an integral part of a family firm of scholars and writers, with brothers William and Henry.


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