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  • I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

    - Christopher Hampton
      The Philanthropist.

  • People sometimes divide others into those you laugh at and those you laugh with. The young Auden was someone you could laugh-at-with.

    - Sir Stephen Harold Spender
      Address at Auden's Memorial Service, Oxford, 27 Oct.

  • Divide not between Protestant and Papist. Divide not nationally, betwixt English and Irish. The King makes no distinction betwixt you.

    -Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
      To the Irish Parliament,15 Jul.

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