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

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Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

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

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

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

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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

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Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

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Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

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

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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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A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

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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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Romance at short notice was her speciality.

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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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The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

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