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| Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. | | Uncategorized | |
| Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. | | Manners | |
| Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost. | | Money | |
| My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. | | Uncategorized | |
| News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead. | | Uncategorized | |
| Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. | | Elderly | |
| Of children as of procreation-the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable. | | Children | |
| One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. | | Uncategorized | |
| Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography | | Future | |
| Other nations use ''force''; we Britons alone use ''Might.'' | | Uncategorized | |
| Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'. | | Uncategorized | |
| Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. | | Family | |
| Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom. | | Prayer | |
| Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. | | Books; Duty; Reading | |
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| Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. | | Uncategorized | |
| That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. | | Uncategorized | |
| The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish | | Mind | |
| The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. | | Uncategorized | |
