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Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

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

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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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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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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.

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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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I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

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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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Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

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

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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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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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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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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 hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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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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