To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.J. B. Priestley
We plan, we toil, we suffer in the hope of what A camel-load of idol's eyes The title deeds of Radio City The empire of Asia A trip to the moon No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.
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