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fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

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Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

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how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

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Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

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There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

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We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

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I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

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If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.

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if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

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Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

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I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

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When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

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"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

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I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

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You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

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Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

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"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

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