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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

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

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

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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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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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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

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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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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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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.

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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

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Romance at short notice was her speciality.

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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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