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I am putting old heads on your young shoulders...all my pupils are the creme de la creme.
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Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology
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There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce ...
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It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.
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Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
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Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
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Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
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