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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
Mrs. Troyle paused again, with the self-applauding air of one who has detected an asp lurking in an apple-charlotte.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
Eleanor hated boys, and she would have liked to have whipped this one long and often. It was perhaps the yearning of a woman who had no children of her own.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
I came here to get freedom from the inane interruptions of the mentally deficient, but it seems I asked too much of fate.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
Sredni Vashtar went forth,
His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white.
His enemies called for peace, but he brought them death.
Sredni Vashtar the Beautiful.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)