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If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits.

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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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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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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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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

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

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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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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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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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It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

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

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

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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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

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I hate babies. They're so human.

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I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.

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