“Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore.”

Quoted by Anita Loos, Kiss Hollywood Goodbye, Viking Press, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-670-41374-7. Loos goes on to claim that "the aphorism had no validity for Wilson."
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American writer 1876–1933

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