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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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The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

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

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I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

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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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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

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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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It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

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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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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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

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But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

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

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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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

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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.

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