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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 may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

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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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To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

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Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

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

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

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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

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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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Romance at short notice was her speciality.

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Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

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In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

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Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.

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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

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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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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 beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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