Saki
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Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
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I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over,' said Amanda in a scandalized voice.'It's her own funeral, you know,' said Sir Lulworth; 'it's a nice point in etiquette how far one ought to show respect to one's own mortal remains.' (Laura)
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Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
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I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over,' said Amanda in a scandalized voice.'It's her own funeral, you know,' said Sir Lulworth; 'it's a nice point in etiquette how far one ought to show respect to one's own mortal remains.' (Laura)
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass; the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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The hyena is said to laugh: but it is rather in the way in which the MP is said to utter 'an ironical cheer'.
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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.
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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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In baiting a mouse trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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It is one of the consolations of middle-aged reformers that the good they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as good cooks go, she went.
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In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
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The young man turned to him with a disarming candour which instantly put him on his guard.
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Women and elephants never forget an injury.
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