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• "'A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better."
• "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."
• "I can't take a well-tanned person seriously."
• "The facts of life are very stubborn things."
• "The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it."
• "The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
• "You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."