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Zdroj: [Exley, Helen, Pro klid v duši 365 : Citáty na každý den, Zuzana Pavlová, Slovart, Praha, 2018, 368, 978-80-7529-518-7, 260]
„Ženská cudnost se skládá, stejně jako cibule, z celé řady vrstev.“
Originál: (en) A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Zdroj: [Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 2004, Passages from the English Note Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kessinger Publishing, 75, angličtina]
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Citáty anglicky
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter IV: The Interview
"Ethan Brand" (1850)
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)
“Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.”
"Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty." — Charles Simmons, Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged (1852), p. 20: "Accuracy"
Misattributed
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)
Zdroj: The Marble Faun (1860), Chapter XLI: Snowdrops and Maidenly Delights
worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.
Letter to William D. Ticknor (9 January 1855)