I said in my novel that the clergyman is a kind of human Sunday. Jones and I settled that my sister May was a kind of human Good Friday and Mrs. Bovill an Easter Monday or some other Bank Holiday.

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11 November 2014

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

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11 November 2014

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

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11 November 2014

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

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11 November 2014

A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.

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11 November 2014

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

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11 November 2014

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

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11 November 2014

Be virtuousand you will be vicious.

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