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

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

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

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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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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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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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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

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

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

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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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A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.

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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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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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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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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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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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