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The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

— Saki Reginald (1904)

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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Reginald (1904)

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

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It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

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Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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