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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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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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Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

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

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I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

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

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

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

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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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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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