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The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

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Princess: I am always disappointed with mountains. There are no mountains in the world as high as I could wish.
Adrian: No?
Princess: They irritate me invariably. I should like to shake Switzerland.


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I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.

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I hear it's the Hebrew in Heaven, sir. Spanish is seldom spoken.

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There was a pause – just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.

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"Oh! help me, heaven," she prayed, "to be decorative and to do right!"

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I suppose when there's no more room for another crow's-foot, one attains a sort of peace?

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To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

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Ronald Firbank

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Born: January 17, 1886
Died: May 21, 1926 (aged 40)
Bio: Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was an innovative British novelist.
Known for:
  1. The Flower Beneath the Foot (1923)
  2. Valmouth (1919)
  3. Vainglory (1915)
  4. Five Novels
  5. Sorrow in sunlight (1924)

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