Saki - Life Quotes

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Cyprian was a boy who carried with him through early life the wondering look of a dreamer, the eyes of one who sees things that are not visible to ordinary mortals, and invests the commonplace things of this world with qualities unsuspected by plainer folk – the eyes of a poet or a house agent.

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"To have reached thirty," said Reginald, "is to have failed in life."

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I believe that I once considerably scandalised her by declaring that a clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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And like every woman who has ever preached repentance to unregenerate youth, she dwelt on the sin of an empty life, which always seems so much more scandalous in the country, where people rise early to see if a new strawberry has happened during the night.

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