I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
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To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British.
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Each man kills the thing he loves.
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