Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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