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The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

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

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

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In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

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

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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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Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

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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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