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A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

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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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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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The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

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

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Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

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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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There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

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

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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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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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

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I hate babies. They're so human.

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