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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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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

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I hate babies. They're so human.

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It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

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

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

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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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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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There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.

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

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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

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Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

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

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

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

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