When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.
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I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.
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Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
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