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Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loath to regard his doom as trivial. Aye, by all minerals we are mocked. Vegetables, yearly deciduous, are far more sympathetic.

— Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson (1911)

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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

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I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased — short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

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The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

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Most women are not so young as they are painted.

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Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

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