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"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
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"There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life."
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"What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance."
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"Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic."
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"Criticism of one's appearance hurts, no matter what."
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"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."
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"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."
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"The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly."
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"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful."
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"He is every other inch a gentleman."
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"It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis."
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"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon."
Necessity
"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
Argument
"In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children."
Travel
"At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands."
Money
"Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off."
Men
"A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated."
Work
"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted."
Soul
"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
Appearance
"We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on."
Man
"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."
Death
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