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From The Great Gatsby” F. Scott Fitzgerald

He smiled understandingly – much more than

understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles

with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that

you may come across four or five times in life. It

faced – or seemed to face – the whole eternal

world for an instant, and then concentrated on

you with an irresistible prejudice in your favour.

It understood you just as far as you wanted to

be understood, believed in you as you would like

to believe in yourself, and assured you that it

had precisely the impression of you that, at your

best, you hoped to convey.

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