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

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

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

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

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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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

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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 cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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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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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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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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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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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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