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

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

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

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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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It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

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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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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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Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

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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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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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I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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

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

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

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