"My dear Gladys, I would not alter either name for the world. They are both perfect. I was thinking chiefly of flowers. Yesterday I cut an orchid, for my button-hole. It was a marvellous spotted thing, as effective as the seven deadly sins. In a thoughtless moment I asked one of the gardeners what it was called. He told me it was a fine specimen of Robinsoniana, or something dreadful of that kind. It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for."
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"Ugliness is one of the seven deadly virtues, Gladys. You, as a good Tory, must not underrate them. Beer, the Bible, and the seven deadly virtues have made our England what she is."
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"They are more cunning than practical. When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy."
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"Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith."
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"Not with women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can‘t bear mediocrities. We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all."
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