"A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away."
"There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty."
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Source: Nathaniel Parker Willis (1849). “Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure: Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary Labor”, p.90
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