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I.

“I don’t know much about Art, but I know what I like.”

II.

“My mother is seventy years old, but she doesn’t look a day over fifty.”

III.

“That dog understands every word I say.”

IV.

“You’ll feel differently about these things when you’re married!”

V.

“It isn’t money, it’s the PRINCIPLE of the thing I object to.”

VI.

“Why aren’t there any good stories in the magazines, nowadays?”

VII.

“I’m afraid I’m not educated up to Japanese prints.”

VIII.

“The Japanese are such an interesting little people!”

IX.

“No, I don’t play chess.  I haven’t got that kind of a brain.”

X.

“No, I never intend to be married.”

XI.

“I thought I loved him at the time, but of course it wasn’t really love.”

XII.

“Funny how some people can never learn to spell!”

XIII.

“If you’d only come yesterday, this room was in perfect order.”

XIV.

“I don’t care for money—­it’s what I can do with it.”

XV.

“I really oughtn’t to tell this, but I know you understand.”

XVI.

“Why, I know you better than you know yourself!”

XVII.

“Now, this thing really happened!”

XVIII.

“It’s a great compliment to have a child fond of you.”

XIX.

“The Salvation Army reaches a class of people that churches never do.”

XX.

“It’s bad enough to see a man drunk—­but, oh! a woman!”

XXI.

“It’s a mistake for a woman to marry a man younger than herself—­women age so much faster than men.  Think what she’ll be, when he’s fifty!”