"It is eerie being all but alone in……" — A. N. Wilson
"It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective."
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66 Quotes by A. N. Wilson
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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