She Was Not Quite What You Would Call Refined. She Was Not Quite What You Would Call Unrefined.

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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what
you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a
parrot.
-- -Mark Twain in "Following the Equator", ch. 57, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's
New Calendar" (1897)

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