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Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Christabel Pankhurst

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Pankhurst, Christabel. Unshackled: The Story of how We Won the Vote. Hutchinson, 1959, ch. 5.

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Chumps always make the best husbands... All the unhappy marriages come from the husband having brains.

P.G. Wodehouse

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Wodehouse, P. G. The Adventures of Sally. Herbert Jenkins, 1922. Originally published in Collier's Magazine, 8 Oct. 1921-31 Dec. 1921.

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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Kingsley Amis

One Fat Englishman

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Amis, Kingsley. One Fat Englishman. Harcourt, Brace & World/Gollancz, 1963.

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Prose was born yesterday-this is what we must tell ourselves. Poetry is pre-eminently the medium of past literatures. All the metrical combinations have been tried but nothing like this can be said of prose.

Gustave Flaubert

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Louise Colet. 24 Apr. 1852.

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Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.

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I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

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Peacock, Thomas Love. "Gryll Grange." Fraser's Magazine, 1860.

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.

John Heywood

Be Merry Friends

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Heywood, John. Be Merry Friends. c. 1580.

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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Boris Pasternak

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Pasternak, Boris. До́ктор Жива́го [Dr. Zhivago]. Feltrinelli, pt. 2, ch. 13, sect. 12.

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Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Vintage International, 2011, pt. 2, ch. 13, sect. 12.

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The English Bible,— a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "John Dryden." Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1828.

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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

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Ruskin, John. "Of Kings Treasures." Sesame and Lilies. 1864, Manchester, UK.

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Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 18, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Wide and undetermined Prospects are as pleasing to the Fancy, as the Speculations of Eternity or Infinitude are to the Understanding.

Joseph Addison

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Addison, Joseph. "Monday, June 23, 1712." The Spectator, 1712, no. 412.

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Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason.

Edward Coke

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Coke, Edward. The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, a Commentarie upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, but of the Law it selfe. London: Societe of Stationers, 1628, bk. 2, ch. 6, sect. 138.

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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

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Addison, Joseph. The Spectator. London, 10 Sept. 1711, no. 166.

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Comedy naturally wears itself out-destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

William Hazlitt

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Hazlitt, William. The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and Manners. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1817, no. 7.

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.

Stanley Baldwin

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Baldwin, Stanley. Speech in the House of Commons. House of Commons meeting. 29 May 1924. London, England, UK.

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The first duty of a State is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed, and educated, till it attain years of discretion.

John Ruskin

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Ruskin, John. Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867, letter 13.

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Ruskin, John. "Time and Tide." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 17, Cambridge University Press, 2010, letter 13.

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Civilized people must get off their high horse and learn with humble lucidity that they too are an indigenous variety.

Alain Finkielkraut

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Finkielkraut, Alain. La défaite de la pensée [The Undoing of Thought]. Gallimard, 1987.

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Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

Julian Barnes

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Barnes, Julian. "Parenthesis." A HIstory of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Tony Blair

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Blair, Tony. Statement after September 11th attacks. 11 Sept. 2001, London, England, UK. Broadcast.

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I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Friedrich Hayek

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Von Hayek, Friedrich August. "Economic Freedom and Representative Government." Fourth Wincott Memorial Lecture. 31 Oct. 1973, The Royal Society of Arts, London, England, UK.

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A desire for wealth is the source of all progress. Civilization comes from what men call greed. Let your mercenary tendencies be combined with honesty and they cannot take you astray.

Anthony Trollope

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Trollope, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her? 1864-1865. Serial.

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Trollope, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her? Penguin Classics, 1975.

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