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I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

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Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

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Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

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Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

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I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

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Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

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He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

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First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.

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There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

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When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

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You must look at facts, because they look at you.

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They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.

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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

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The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

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We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

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Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

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To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

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