"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

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“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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— William Dalrymple (historian)

Literature1965

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"We have had more than 100 hours in Committee over the past three and a half years. The reality is that, if there is anything about this arrangement that we have not now debated and thrashed to death, …"

— Iain Duncan Smith

Politics1954

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"There were times when I wished I had been 'prenticed to a different trade. I was putting in seven hours a day on it. It was an odd life I was always hoping that the end of one thriller would not overt…"

— Margery Allingham

Literature1904–1966

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"Of all the various ways which the imagination has distorted truth, there is none which has worked so much harm as an exaggerated respect for past ages. This reverence for antiquity is repugnant to eve…"

— Henry Thomas Buckle

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