Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary. - Lytton Strachey

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My friends and I love having girls' nights in. We're hardly ever all in the same city, but when we're finally able to hang out, we make the most of it.

Lytton Strachey

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

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If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

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With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

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The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

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