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Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

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

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Romance at short notice was her speciality.

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

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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

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

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

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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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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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

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

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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

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

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

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