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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

— Russell Lynes

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A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there.'

Snobs (1950)

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side. … After a long period of gazing (during which he may occasionally squint his eyes), he will approach to within a few inches of the picture and examine the brushwork; he will then return to his former distant position, give the picture another glance and walk away.

Snobs (1950)

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