To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.
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A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
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He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.
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Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
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