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There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

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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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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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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 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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Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

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

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It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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

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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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