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- I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
- As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does…
- All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour,…
- Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
- Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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