The Devil's Dictionary: Artlessness

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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ARTLESSNESS

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A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

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