| A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better. (Cleveland Amory (22)) | |
| As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. (Cleveland Amory (22)) | |
| The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it. (Cleveland Amory (22)) | |
| The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. (Cleveland Amory (22)) | |
| There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. (Cleveland Amory (22)) | |
| Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. (Arrian) | |
| They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise. (Arrian) | |
| They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way. (Arrian) | |
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