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

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Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

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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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On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

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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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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

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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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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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I hate babies. They're so human.

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Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

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

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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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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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Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

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Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

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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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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

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Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.

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