本书摘录:
A Guide to Men; Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
THE MATERIAL FOR
THIS BOOK WAS COLLECTED
DIRECTLY
FROM NATURE AT
GREAT PERSONAL RISK
BY THE AUTHOR
A BACHELOR‘S LIFE
IS ONE LONG
SOLO--USUALLY
A HYMN OF
THANKSGIVING
To FANNIE HURST
Who has discovered the secret of how to be happy, though wedded to an art and to a man at the same time.
FOREWORD
A SMALL phial, I doubt not, could contain the attar of the epigrammatic literature of all time. Few of the perfumes of this diminutive form of wit and satire have survived. Pretty and scented vaporings, most of the thousands and thousands of them, that have died on the air of the foibles of their day.
Yet how the pungent ones can persist! The racy old odors, which are as new as now, that still hover about the political and amorous quips of the Greeks. The nose-crinkling ones of the French, more vinegar-a
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