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1 " The vulgar might laugh at the Foreign Office, but there was no doubt it taught you how to deal with difficult people. "
― W. Somerset Maugham , Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works
2 " Whatever happened to him now would be one more motive to add to the complexity of the pattern, and when the end approached he would rejoice in its completion. It would be a work of art, and it would be none the less beautiful because he alone knew of its existence, and with his death it would at once cease to be. "
3 " I venture to think that the cess-pool is more necessary to democracy than parliamentary institutions. "
4 " No one any good you be sure,' said Mrs. Kemp. 'I can't swaller these new people as are comin' in; the street ain't wot it was when I fust come.' When "
5 " elephantiasis, "
6 " lava-lava. "
7 " she spent a long hour in the Turner room in the Tate Gallery, drinking "
8 " Feckless "
9 " have not so very many years before you "
10 " abstemious "