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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

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The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

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War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

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But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

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Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

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Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

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A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

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Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

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The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

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Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

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It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

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Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

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After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

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Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

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Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

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Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

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I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same.

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We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

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If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

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