"The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat"
"Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it."
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Source: Frank Norris, Joseph R. McElrath, Douglas K. Burgess (1996). “The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898”, American Philosophical Society
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