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Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

— Compton Mackenzie Literature in My Time (1933)

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There is little to choose morally between beating up a man physically and beating him up mentally.

On Moral Courage (1962)

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief – and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

Vestal Fire (1927)

He was eighty years old now, with a bloom on his cheeks like an autumn pippin and two limpid blue eyes that looked straight into yours and, if you had any reverence at all, made the tears well involuntarily at the sight of such gentle beauty.

The Passionate Elopement (1911)

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