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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our g...more

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Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks ...more

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A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

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He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses...more