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“The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.”

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“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.”

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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

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I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his…

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Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

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“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.”

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In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains…

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The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

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