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Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

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• You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

  

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• Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Paris
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  • Elegant