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I hope you don't mind tea in mugs,' she said, coming in with a tray. 'I told you I was a slut.

Have you some garlic?' Prudence asked. 'Garlic?' echoed Jane in astonishment. 'Certainly not! Imagine a clergyman and his wife going about the parish smelling of garlic!'

T]heir cats will be looked after too -- one only hopes Daisy won't put in more food for them than for the humans.' Faustina [the cat] looked up from her saucer, her dark face made all the more reproachful by its beard of milk.

She had rheumatism too, but Belinda realized that she would have to have something out of self-defence and perhaps with the passing of the years it had become a reality. One never knew.

Oh, God, yes! You'd hate sharing a kitchen with me. I'm such a slut,' she said, almost proudly.

You must be Mrs. Cleveland's friend that's come to stay,' said a woman in a dark felt hat trimmed with a bird's body.

I always feel that one ought to give men the opportunity for self-sacrifice; their natures are so much less noble than ours.

The real miracle is that I didn't kill anybody else." "Or go to jail for a long time." "Yeah. Lucky, I guess." "Or white." He smiled. "That, too.

Women," she said, "need to tell stories about what happens to them. That's how we get it to make sense." "Interesting. What do men do?" "Have heart attacks, and sex with strange women.

You just have to forget whatever you were taught about "meaningful work" and start noticing whatever has meaning to you.

need a drink of Ella's hot soup." Ella brought the warm broth

Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.

It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and some of us use our memories.

The origin of war, according to its 14th century codifier Honoré Bonet, lay in Lucifer's war against God,

Though surnamed the Wise, he was not immune from the occupational disease of rulers: overestimation of their capacity to control events. No

Have we," he wondered, "conceived a merely human project and then imagined it to be a decree of the Almighty?

He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.

Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.

This was not necessarily a deliberate effort to be offensive; it was normal for General Staff officers to be offensive.

Oversimplified perhaps, this in essence is the problem known to nineteenth-century diplomacy as the Eastern Question.

London is the best place in the world to cure a person of extravagance.

So you hired a whore, didn't fornicate at all, and did impromptu major surgery on her?» he asked. «Exactly! Aren't I horny and honorable and brave and resourceful?»

Immorality is the negation of my higher nature; the affirmation of my animality alone and its opposition to my spirituality to the exclusion of the latter.

I was fairly puzzled as I thought over all the divisions of the most learned Church in the most religious country in the world.