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the self-conscious, wooden smile on her face that so often disfigures the expression in posed photography,
some people, under a nervous and self-effacing manner, conceal a great deal of vanity and self-satisfaction.”
We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves,
the resolute competent manner of a man accustomed to meeting with emergencies.
“Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
People must have—must have confidence in you! When I have undertaken to do a thing, I carry it through. It is the only way to get on in—in—business.”