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'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'The boughs that bear most hang lowest.'.. David Garrick
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying'.. GK Chesterton
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.'.. Alan Bennett
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. 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