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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large…
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It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise…
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We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
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This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on…
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a…
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I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.
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As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
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Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a…
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In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
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One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of…
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My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the…
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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with…
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