It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
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Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.
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You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.
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I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived, my breakfast supplied only two ideas, that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
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If vice cannot wholly be eradicated, it ought to be confined to particular objects.
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There will be, there are, many false issues. In that respect, this will be no different from other campaigns. Partisans, not willing to face realities, will drag out red herrings as they have always done, to divert attention from the trail of their own weaknesses.
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Arrogance in persons of merit affronts us more than arrogance in those without merit: Merit itself is an affront.
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Praising all alike, is praising none.
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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
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With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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