This I denied, and Graham at once said it was his fault if anybody's.
Lord John threw out a hint about Ireland; but he at once said he could not go there at the expense of the certain ruin of his health.
I have had as good a chance to see a ghost," he once said, "as anybody ever had, but not the slightest sign ever came to me.
Of Edith Thomas he once said in one of his notelets, "She has a divine gift, and her first book is more than a promise--an assurance.
I can live for two months on a good compliment," he once said.
Clemens, commenting on the matter, once said: "It may be that he was not flung into the sea, still the belief was general that that was what had happened.
Speaking of her in a later day, he once said: "She had a sort of ability which is rare in man and hardly existent in woman--the ability to say a humorous thing with the perfect air of not knowing it to be humorous.
Once said he, "Would that I could dispense with speech!
To his disciples he once said, "Do you look upon me, my sons, as keeping anything secret from you?
I get enraged," he once said, speaking of the publication of his complete works, "when I think of that edition which contains every opera I have composed.
There's something base about a decision,' he once said to me.
He once said: "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go; my own wisdom and that of all around me seemed insufficient for the day.
Henry Ward Beecher hardly exaggerated when he once said to me, "Put all of his children together and we do not equal my father at his best.
I am the sort of man,' he once said, 'of whom Tourgueneff would make an admirable study.
Mrs. Grail at once said: 'I dare say you're right, my dear.
An old and intimate friend of the Master's once said to me that he believed "Jowett's inner mind, especially toward the end of his life, was always in an attitude of Prayer.
For this, too, was the man who, in a city haunted by Tractarian shades, once said to his chief biographer that "Voltaire had done more good than all the Fathers of the Church put together!
Artistic paternity," he once said, "is as wholesome as physical paternity.
The philanthropist," he once said, "is not a brother; he is a supercilious aunt.
The English, he once said, had no religion left except their sense of humour but I think he meant that they hung out humour somewhat defiantly as a smoke-screen for other things.
We should, he once said, "regard the important suburbs as ancient cities embedded in a sort of boiling lava spouted up by that volcano, the speculative builder.
The General at once said, "Send for Havelock and his Saints, they are not drunk.
I believe," he once said to an interviewer, "in the inspiration of hard work.
Of his college days he once said: "My standing was not high.
It has been maintained," he once said, "that a constitutional king cannot be a king by the Grace of God; on the contrary he is it above all others.
He once said to Bailey: "The greatest thing in the world would be the union of the English-speaking people.
Your people," he once said to me, "have made farming a science and I wish that South Africa could emulate them.
He once said, "Never fight with a man if you can deal with him.
He once said, "No luxury of civilization can be equal to the relief from the tyranny of custom.
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