Now that he was telling it all to Natasha he experienced that pleasure which a man has when women listen to him-not clever women who when listening either try to remember what they hear to enrich their minds and when opportunity offers to retell it, or who wish to adopt it to some thought of their own and promptly contribute their own clever comments prepared in their own little mental workshop-but the pleasure given by real women gifted with a capacity to select and absorb the very best a man shows of himself.
War & Peace
Leo Tolstoy
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