Circumstances Quote by Peter Temple

“Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.”

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No book of mine is complete without a dog.

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Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

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