“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.”
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“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”
“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.”
“I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.”
“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
“Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”
“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.”
“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.”
“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”