Manners are love in a cool climate.

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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes...

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes...

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for...

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for...

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years...

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years...

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms...

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms...

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep...

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep...

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who...

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who...

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system...

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system...

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have...

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have...

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are...

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are...

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and...

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and...

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves...

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves...

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer...

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer...

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and...

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and...

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey...

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey...