If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson. (Elizabeth Peters)

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson.

Elizabeth Peters

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