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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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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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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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It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

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

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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

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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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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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

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

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And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

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

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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

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A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

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

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

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Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

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