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

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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

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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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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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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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To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

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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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His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

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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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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

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

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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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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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

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

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