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People are either born hosts or born guests.


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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.



Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.



To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.



When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.



No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.



The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.



I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.



Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.



I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.



Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.





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