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You see around you the old masters. They were called masters, as you are doubtless aware, because they taught drawing; the epithet old was applied on account of the general leeriness of their dispositions.

— Henry Savile Clarke

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Nobody but a highlander can go about without his trousers.

Whenever I had spotted a real good thing, my funds would never run to paper and stamps to apply for shares.

All apartments are eligible as I ever heard tell of, just as all shopkeepers, barring that publican next door, are respectable.

A Nursery Magician took
All little children by the hand:
And led them laughing through the book
Where Alice walks in Wonderland.

A Selection from the Letters of Lewis Carroll to his Child-Friends (1933)

Be speedy, for I was born under a thirsty star.

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