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Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

— Mrs Patrick Campbell Disputed

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Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!

That's because Tallulah's always skating on thin ice, and they want to be there when it breaks.

Oh dear me — it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you — but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.

She has such pretty little eyes — And they're so close together!

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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