Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.
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Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life But it wants leisure.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
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