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No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Am

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute. – Paul Gallico

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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. – Paul Gallico

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O, she is the antidote to desire. – William Congreve, Love for Love, 1695

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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. – Rose Macaulay

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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. – Charles Baudelaire

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Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison

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