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I hate babies. They're so human.

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

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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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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

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

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To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

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

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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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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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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

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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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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

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I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

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

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

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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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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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