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When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face.

— Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile — that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

Trent's Own Case (1936)

Is it a cosmic law, d'you think, that conceited men's hats are always too small?

Trent Intervenes (1938)

Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.

Trent Intervenes (1938)

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead.

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

And as for that low, velvety voice of hers, if she asked me to murder my best friend I should have to do it on the spot.

Trent Intervenes (1938)

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