Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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