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'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'If I were to choose where I was to die it would be in the herbaceous border'.. Miriam Stoppard
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'The hard part is getting to the top of Page 1'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Football is not a matter of Life and Death - its far more important than that'.. Bill Shankly
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created'.. William Morris