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The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

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I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

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On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

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All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

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To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

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The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

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There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.

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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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