Quote #8

Lift latch, step in, be welcome, Sir, Albeit to see you I'm unglad.

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  1. The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
  2. Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.
  3. As a teacher, as a propagandist, Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
  4. Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
  5. The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, …
  6. She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classifi…
  7. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
  8. He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.

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