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From Quotes by Anthony Burgess
- It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.
- If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths…
- Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time,…
- The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that…
- If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
- There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,…
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