Exert from Dangerous Liaisons, Marquise de Merteuil
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Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
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When I came out into society I was 15, I already knew then that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe, not to what people told me, which, naturally was of no interest to me, but to whatever it was that they were trying to hide. I practice detachment. I learned how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear philosophers, to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And in the end, it all came down to one wonderfully simple principle when or die.