"English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next."

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Source : Paul Scott (2011). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown”, p.206, University of Chicago Press

Paul Scott

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“Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.”
“What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The key to risk management is never putting yourself in a position where you cannot live to fight another day.”
“Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.”
“I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.”
“Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?”
“A college president is like the lawn mower at a cemetary: he has a lot of people under him, but they don't pay much attention to him”
“My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.”

Source : W.N.P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary”, p.363, Courier Dover Publications

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