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

Saki


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

Saki

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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

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

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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.

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

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Well in those parts (upcountry India) they have were-tigers, or think they have, and I must say that in this case, so far as sworn and uncontested evidence went, they had every ground for thinking so. However, as we gave up witchcraft prosecutions about three hundred years ago, we don’t like to have other people keeping on our discarded practices; it doesn’t seem respectful to our mental and moral position.

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Romance at short notice was her specialty.

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