To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'ĂȘtre of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely one of the many things to be ignored. His was a calming influence.
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Cornelia Otis Skinner
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s
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Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.