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“No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.”

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Single-sex private schools, especially in the middle of nowhere on a bleak hill in County Durham - I don't think they make sense.

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I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the…

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No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

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The future looks a bit bleak to me.

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