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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
Margaret Halsey
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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
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Yonkers
New York State
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Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.
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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
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The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
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the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
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the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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