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I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

— Saki The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)

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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.

Reginald (1904)

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.

Reginald (1904)

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

Reginald (1904)

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

Reginald (1904)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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