Saki - People Quotes

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To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

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Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.

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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

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All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'.

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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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People will do things from a sense of duty which they would never attempt as a pleasure.

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Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

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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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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

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