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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

— Saki Reginald (1904)

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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Reginald (1904)

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

Reginald (1904)

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

Reginald (1904)

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

Reginald (1904)

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

Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

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