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I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.

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Myrtle Reed

Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

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