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I put the words down and push them a bit.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

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