• If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

  Remy de Gourmont
  French writer, poet and philosopher 1858-1915
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1. understood
2. divined

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If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined. by : Remy de Gourmont

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