An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

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In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

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I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

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