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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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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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And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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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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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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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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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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There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

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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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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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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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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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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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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

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I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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

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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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