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

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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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I hate babies. They're so human.

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

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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

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To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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

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Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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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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A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.

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