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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.