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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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To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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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 believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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

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

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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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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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

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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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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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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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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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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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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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