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At our age there's nothing better than conversation with someone who remembers the world you knew when you were a child — and the people in it. It's as good as taking your hair down.
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There's some to whom you can and should turn your soul inside out. It ain't what you say that matters but who you tells it to.
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Marriage is the most delightful of the impermanencies of life.
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'You can't be expected to think of everything,' said George in soothing tones. That's the sort of remark that breaks up marriages.
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Truth, in case you haven't recognized the fact, is what you can persuade the other chap to believe.
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Miss Chisholm never went so far as the mailbox except in the car. She thought that if you were meant to walk you'd be given four feet.
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And after all, they're God's creatures as much as we, and who's to say He doesn't like them a lot better?
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I feel about nature like people who don't like dogs feel about dogs — very nice for other people if they're kept in the right place.
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Parents have a habit of underestimating their children.
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It wasn't so much that he'd smothered his conscience as that he couldn't spell the word.
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Most of the trouble of the world comes from putting things into writing.
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Ignorance, if not bliss, often saves a good deal of time.
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Second-hand impressions are no more to be trusted than second-hand clothes.
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Gin is cheering and wine maketh glad the heart of man, but when you're in a real turmoil there's nothing like a good strong cup of tea.
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Nobody's ever too old for anything, until they think they are.
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Life was no more than a boarding-house where one stayed too short a time to bother much if the hot water system didn't work very well or the beds were lumpy.
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That's the worst of the law. They never do the sensible, straightforward thing. They have to go around corners, like a cat that always takes the longest way home.
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People... believe what they wish to believe, and see what they are expecting to see.
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You know, it's never safe to tread on a female. They have stings in their tails. I suppose Mullins thought of his wife as one of these poor fish he could do anything with, and didn't realise that with the weakest of women you're playing with fire.
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I can't think why women want to marry men at all, they're such fools. I suppose it's because there's nothing else for them to marry.
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I know coincidence has a long arm, but it's not an octopus.
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There are two things everybody thinks they can do — write a book and run a shop.
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Nobody ever notices the host at a party, until the drink runs out.
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You've got two alternatives — ride out the storm or go for a little holiday.' 'And have everyone say I couldn't face the music?' 'Why should you, if you ain't musically inclined?'
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Hell is the place where nothing ever stops and nothing ever changes, a far more alarming conception than the old-fashioned fire and brimstone.
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That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Swami Vivekananda
Anthony Gilbert
Born:
February 15, 1899
Died:
December 9, 1973
(aged 74)
Bio:
Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson, was an English crime writer who was a cousin of actor-screenwriter Miles Malleson.
Known for:
The Spinster's Secret (1946)
The black stage (1945)
Murder by experts (1936)
Death in the wrong room (1947)
A nice little killing (1973)
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