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

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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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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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

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

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

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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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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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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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

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

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There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

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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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I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

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

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