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How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing.
(Arthur) Neville Chamberlain
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One of the few things I have learned in life isthat there is invariablysomething odd about womenwho wearankle socks.

Alan Bennett

— 1977  The Old Country, act1.

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The most fundamental value of a liberal education isthat it makes life more interesting.

brewster, kingman, jr.

— Recalled on his death in the NewYork Times, 9 Nov1988.

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   Thething whichamazesme isthat I know perfectly well, as a historian, that there is corruption in any governmentthere's always corruption. It's bad when it's more than fifteen percent.


— Interviewed by Ramsay Cook in Eleanor Cook (ed)  The Craft of History (1973).

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My general impression isthat Englishmen act better than Frenchmen, and Frenchwomen better than Englishwomen.

(Enoch) Arnold Bennett

— 1909  Cupid and Commonsense, preface.

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It is only when you get to see and realize what India isthat she is the strength and the greatness of Englandthat you feel that every nerve a man may strain, every energy he may put forward, cannot be devoted to a nobler purpose than keeping tight the cords that hold India to ourselves.

Lord George Nathaniel Curzon (of Kedleston)

— 1893  Speech at Southport,15 May.

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You have a row of dominoes set up.You knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last isthat it will go over very quickly.


— 1954  Explaining the domino theory in relation to SE  Asia,7  Apr.

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What I'd really liketosayabout stardom isthat it gave me everything I never wanted.


— 1990  Ava: My Story.

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The worstthing thatcanhappento oldgoodmusic isthat it might become dated for a while, but watch out, in twenty years it will come drifting back like bell-bottoms and W.C. Fields movies.


— 1974  Raise Up Off Me (with Don  Asher), ch.22.

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What characterizes a member of a minority group isthat he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Norman Kingsley Mailer

— 1966  Cannibals and Christians, 'A Speech  At Berkeley on Vietnam Day'.

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Thetrouble isthat we drink toomuchtea.I see inthisthe slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.


— 1949  In the Observer,15 May.

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Fineart isthat inwhichthe hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

john ruskin

— 1859  TheTwo Paths, lecture 2.

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And of Hissigns isthat He created for you, of yourselves, spouses, that you might repose in them, and He has set between you love and mercy.

The Koran

— Sura 30, l.21.

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Bot for men sein, and soth it is,That who that al of wisdom writIt dulleth ofte a mannes witTo him that schal it aldai rede,For thilke cause, if that ye rede,I wolde go the middel weieAnd wryte a bok betwen the tweie,Somwhat of lust, somewhat of lore.

john gower

— Prologue, line 12.

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... I write for thisRemembering and considering what the pith is,That by remembrance of these proverbs may grow.In this tale, erst talked with a friend, I showAs many of them as we could fitly findFalling to purpose, that might fall in mind.

john heywood

— Preface

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