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• Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take…
• That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
• She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
• Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
• Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene…
• One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
• If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
• I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one…
• I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
• Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be…
• Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
• Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of…

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