I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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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.
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It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
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