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In general, in-door prospects are the best. What purling brook matches the music of my gurgling bottle? What is an old roofless cathedral compared to a well-built pie?

— William Maginn

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The safety of women consists in one circumstance: Men do not possess at the same time the knowledge of thirty-five and the blood of seventeen.

Never take lobster-sauce to salmon; it is mere painting of the lily, or, I should rather say, of the rose.

Cold pig's face is one of the best things in the world for breakfast.

When a man is drunk, it is no matter upon what he has got drunk.

In literature and in love we generally begin in bad taste.

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