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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

— Arnold Bennett The Title (1918)

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The price of justice is eternal publicity.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The Title (1918)

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it.

The Title (1918)

A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour.

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910)

It was an idea of pure genius that had suddenly struck her; the genius of common sense.

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