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Mr. N. and Miss Z. in the city of X. Both clever, educated, of radical views, and both working for the good of their fellow men, but both hardly know each other and in conversation always rail at each other in order to please the stupid and coarse crowd.
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He flourished his hand as if he were going to seize him by the hair and said: "You won't escape by that there trick."
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N. has never been in the country and thinks that in the winter country people use skis. "How I would enjoy ski-ing now!"
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Madam N., who sells herself, says to each man who has her: "I love you because you are not like the rest."
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An intellectual woman, or rather a woman who belongs to an intellectual circle, excels in deceit.