"Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem—for purely religious purposes, of course—to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate."

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“An' I learned about women from 'er.”

“A rose-red city, half as old as Time.”

“But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.”

“There are only two divisions in the world to-day — human beings and Germans. And the German knows it. Human beings have long ago sickened of him and everything connected with him,of all he does, says, thinks and believes.”

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

“Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.”

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