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• When one is trying to be elegant and sophisticated, one won't. -- Betty Hartig
• History repeats itself. That's one thing wrong with history.
• Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
  -- George Sala...
• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
  -- Dorothy Nevill...
• A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. -- Juvenal, Satire
• deserves to lose adj. [common] Said of someone who willfully does the Wrong Thing
  humorously, if one uses a feature known to be marginal....