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A. N. Wilson has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,…
— Julian Assange
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
— Margaret Atwood
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I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply…
— Margaret Atwood
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around…
— Adele
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One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
— Danny Boyle
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Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times.…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.
— Kevin McCloud
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian…
— Ellen Glasgow
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I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them…
— Sadie Frost
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The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.
— Dylan McDermott
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Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The…
— Patti Smith
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The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and…
— Lavinia Greenlaw
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