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British writer of short stories (1870-1916) Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail

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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

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

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Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

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

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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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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

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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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