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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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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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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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I hate babies. They're so human.

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

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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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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

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

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

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

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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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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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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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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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