sophistication quotes

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley
  In Dissent, Summer.

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

-Thurber,James Grover
  In the NewYorker, 2 Aug.

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