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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

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

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

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I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

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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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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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

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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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

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

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But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

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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 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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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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