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Entertaining is the finest of all the fine arts, and it cannot be done by proxy. It cannot be done by the cook, nor yet by the decorator. Let the hostess give her guests her personal interest, her sympathetic comprehension, and she will have then mastered the delicate and subtle art.
Entertaining is the finest of all the fine arts, and it cannot be done by proxy. It cannot be done by the cook, nor yet by the decorator. Let the hostess give her guests her personal interest, her sympathetic comprehension, and she will have then mastered the delicate and subtle art.
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- Lilian Whiting
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 149; printed byline: Lilian Whiting; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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