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

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

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Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

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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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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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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 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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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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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 hate babies. They're so human.

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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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On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

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