I always say beauty is only sin deep.
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Citations by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Which reminds me of the man I read of in some sacred book who was given a choice of what he most desired. And because he didn't ask for titles and honours and dignities, but only for immense wealth, these other things came to him also.
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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.
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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.
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Reginald in his wildest lapses into veracity never admits to being more than twenty-two.
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Reginald closed his eyes with the elaborate weariness of one who has rather nice eyelashes and thinks it useless to conceal the fact.
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By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.
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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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