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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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