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The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

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Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.

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The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

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In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.

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[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

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How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.

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Money gives me pleasure all the time.

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