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  • Whose love isgiven over-well Shall look on Helen's face in hell Whilst they whose love is thin and wise Shall see John Knox in Paradise.

    - Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
      Not So Deep as AWell,'Partial Comfort'.

  • 'I call it a criminal thing in any one's great-great- grandfather to rear up a preposterous troop of sons and plant them all out in his own country', Lady Knox said to me with apparent irrelevance.'I detest collaterals. Blood may be thicker than water, but it is also a great deal nastier.'

    -Martin Ross
      Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.,'Philippa's Fox-Hunt'.

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