Dogs are all, more or less, physiognomists, and commonly pretty determined aristocrats, fond of the fine and averse to the shabby, distinguishing, with a nice accuracy, the master castes from the pariahs of the world.

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To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

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She [Jane Austen] was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers.

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Perpendicular, precise and taciturn.

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