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However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

— Ernest Bramah Kai Lung's Golden Hours (1922)

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Note: this is cited in Dorothy Sayers' Strong Poison.

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One learns to itch where one can scratch.

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It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.

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However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

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In his countenance this person read an expression of no-encouragement towards his venture.

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