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if you don't find a loyal one in the world you be the one

She was one of those who shape their opinions rather readily from the standpoint of those around them.

Laurence was an artist-chap, just that and nothing more, though you might make it sound more important by calling him an animal painter;

I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

He nurse the illusion that he is one of the lost arms of the Venus de Milo, and hopes that the French Government may be persuaded to buy him.

On all other subjects I believe he is tolerably sane.

Even the hooligan was probably invented in China centuries before we thought of him.

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.

She looks as if she might have created the world in six days and destroyed it on the seventh.

The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'.

Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Cats have nine lives, you know," said Sir Wilfrid heartily.
"Possibly," answered Tobermory; "but only one liver.

Never," wrote Reginald to his most darling friend, "be a pioneer. It's the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

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.

If he was trying German irregular verbs on the poor beast," said Clovis, "he deserved all he got.

One can discourage too much history in one's family, but one cannot always prevent geography.

For he was a god who laid some special stress on the fierce impatient side of things ...

I regard one's hair as I regard husbands: as long as one is seen together in public one's private divergences don't matter.

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

When one has nothing left to one but memories, one guards and dusts them with especial care.

I've a sweet temper, but I can't stand being agreed with.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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

It was the happiest Christmas Eve he had ever spent. To quote his own words, he had a rotten Christmas.

Romance at short notice was her specialty.

Pluralism is a merciful narcotic.

To say that anything was a quotation was an excellent method, in Eleanor's eyes, for withdrawing it from discussion,

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

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

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

When love is over, how little of love even the lover understands," quoted Clovis to himself.

Neither man was talkative and each was grateful to the other for not being talkative. That is why from time to time they talked.

It was decorated with Japanese fans and Chinese lanterns, which gave it a very Old English effect.

This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.

The grill-room clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

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

Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.