A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it
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The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.H. Munro
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Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance
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His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.
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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
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