If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir, a decorative litt. (George Bernard Shaw)

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir, a decorative litt.

George Bernard Shaw

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