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'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Those that vow the most are the least sincere.'.. Richard Sheridan
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'.. T S Eliot
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.'.. A A Milne
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds