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

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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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A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

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

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

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

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

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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

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

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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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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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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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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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