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

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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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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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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

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

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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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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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I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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Romance at short notice was her speciality.

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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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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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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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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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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

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