"THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent……" — Dick Francis
"THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child."
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20 Quotes by Dick Francis
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I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone…
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But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll…
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Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont…
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Good manners are a sign of strength.
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Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.
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Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
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The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.
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