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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

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

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

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

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On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

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

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

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Romance at short notice was her speciality.

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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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