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“ There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay. ”

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I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over,' said Amanda in a scandalized voice.'It's her own funeral, you know,' said Sir Lulworth; 'it's a nice point in etiquette how far one ought to show respect to one's own mortal remains.' (Laura)

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I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

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Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

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