Negotiating with men’s vanity gives one the best bargain, for one often receives the most substantial advantages in return for very little of substance.

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French writer, diplomat, politician
Recollections, 3.3 (1893) [tr. Lawrence (1964)]

 
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