To marry a man out of pity is folly and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak . . .
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Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.
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If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
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Dear boy, it isn't that your manners are bad -- it's simply that you have no manners at all.
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