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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

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Western man is schizophrenic.

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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

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As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: September 13th, 1894

Died: August 14th, 1984

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