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“It was a delightful visit; - perfect, in being much too short.”
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“... Maurice ... seemed to have set himself some impossible standard of discourtesy.”
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“Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.”
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“You can do more than praying after you have prayed. You can never do more than praying before you have prayed.”
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“She had to confess inexperience; her personality was still too much for her, like a punt-pole.”
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“I asked how long it [his book] was. 'Eight hundred and ninety-seven pages,' he said. Then he added, earnestly, 'You don't suppose they'll think I wrote it in a fit of pique.'”
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“Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.”
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“She had a talent for looking at a person with no expression — you filled in whatever you felt guiltiest about.”