Competence
"The most steadily attractive of all human qualities in competence. One invariably admires a man who is good at his trade, whatever it must be - who understands its technique thoroughly, and surmounts its difficulties with ease, and gets substantial rewards for his labors, and is envied by his rivals. And in precisely the same way one admires a woman who, in a business-like and sure-handed way, has gone out and got herself a good husband, and persuaded him to be grateful for her condescension, and so made herself secure."
H.L. Mencken
A Second Mencken Chrestomathy
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