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His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

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

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

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

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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 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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The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

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

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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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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

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

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Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

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There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

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

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

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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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