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“We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.”

- Saki

Source/Notes: The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 13 (1912)

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“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”

- Saki

Source/Notes: The Comments of Moung Ka, The Square Egg (1924)

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“Put that bloody cigarette out!”

- Saki

Source/Notes: Reported in The Square Egg, p. 102.

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“Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.”

- Saki

Source/Notes: The Achievement of the Cat

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“I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”

- Saki

Source/Notes: The Unbearable Bassington (1912)

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“Reginald in his wildest lapses into veracity never admits to being more than twenty-two.”

- Saki

Source/Notes: Reginald - Reginald (1904)

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“I found everyone talking nervously and feverishly of the weather and the war in South Africa, except Reginald, who was reclining in a comfortable chair with the dreamy, far-away look that a volcano might wear just after it had desolated entire villages.”

- Saki

Source/Notes: Reginald - Reginald (1904)

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“It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.”

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Source/Notes: Reginald on Christmas Presents - Reginald (1904)

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“To die before being painted by Sargent is to go to Heaven prematurely.”

- Saki

Source/Notes: Reginald on the Academy - Reginald (1904)

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“You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.”

- Saki

Source/Notes: Reginald on the Academy - Reginald (1904)

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“To have reached thirty, said Reginald, is to have failed in life.”

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Source/Notes: Reginald on the Academy - Reginald (1904)

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“The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.”

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Source/Notes: Reginald at he Theatre - Reginald (1904)

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“Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?”

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Source/Notes: Reginald's Peace Poem - Reginald (1904)

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“And the sleeper, eye unlidding, Heard a voice for ever bidding Much farewell to Dolly Gray; Turning weary on his truckle- Bed he heard the honey-suckle Lauded in apiarian lay.”

- Saki

Source/Notes: Reginald's Peace Poem - Reginald (1904)

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