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“addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.”
― Saki, The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories

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“Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination”
― Andrew Lang

tags: illumination, lamppost, statistics

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“the fact of a leading organ of Evangelical thought being edited for two successive fortnights from Trouville and Monte Carlo was generally admitted to have been a mistake. ”
― Saki, The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories

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“The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'.”
― Saki

tags: cowboys, proverbs, the-english

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“it was decorated with Japanese fans and Chinese lanterns, which gave it a very Old English effect.”
― Saki, The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories

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