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Highly Quotes by John Fowles
- Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as…
- Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games…
- Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
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