'Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves?' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he. - Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
