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'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley

'Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.'.. Beatrix Potter

'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden

'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton

'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham

'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr

'Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.'.. George Eliot

'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin

'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle

'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde

'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf

'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson

'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke

'To forget oneself is to be happy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson

'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson

'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon

'The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.'.. Somerset Maugham

'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair

'The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.'.. E M Forster

'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan

'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie

'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin

'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand

'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson

'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott

'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner

'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary

'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne

'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker

'Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect'.. Samuel Johnson

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