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When it comes to analysing the pleasures of life, the privilege of approving and disapproving in conversation must be ranked very high, and reading aloud makes it so very harmless an amusement, since no talebearing is involved.

— E. V. Lucas Old Lamps for New (1911)

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The books that one reads in the impressionable years, and therefore absorbs and remembers, are always so much better and more exciting than life.

Loiterer's Harvest (1913)

A second-hand bookseller, I found, may read much in his time, but he cannot read continuously.

Over Bemerton's (1908)

The man who is so painstakingly cautious about doing his own body no harm seldom does anything for anyone else.

Zigzags in France (1925)

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

The Phantom Journal (1919)

"What was that?" said Grandmamma, who is not really deaf, but when in a tight place likes to gain time by this harmless imposition.

Over Bemerton's (1908)

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