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

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

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

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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 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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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

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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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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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

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Romance at short notice was her speciality.

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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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

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

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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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I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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