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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.  
And mothers of large families (who claim common sense) will find a Tig...  
Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whats...  
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can ...  
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure ...  
From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Ther...  
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely wri...  
I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pi...  
I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I u...  
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me p...  
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nati...  
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolera...  
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow whe...  
Oh! let us never, never doubt what nobody is sure about!  
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, but Roaring Bill (who killed ...  
The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and...   Politics
The grace of God is courtesy.  
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expr...  
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.  
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.  
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awf...  
When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his boo...