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There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.

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

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

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

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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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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 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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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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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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A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

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Romance at short notice was her speciality.

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

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

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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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It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

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

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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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