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Even blunt and cloudy Diderot confessed: “Women accustom us to discuss with charm and clearness the dryest and thorniest subjects. We talk to them unceasingly; we wish them to listen; we are afraid of tiring or boring them. Hence we develop a particular method of explaining ourselves easily, and this method passes from conversation into style.”
The Age of Voltaire: The Story of Civilization, Volume IX
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