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

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

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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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I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.

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Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

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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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I hate babies. They're so human.

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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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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

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It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

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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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Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

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

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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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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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