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Reading musses up my mind.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.

Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.

He declined to point out 'what appear to us as defects', on the grounds that 'most of them will be obvious' and he had no wish 'to feed the malevolence of little or lazy critics'.1

To be 'subderisorious' consists of 'scoffing or ridiculing with tenderness and delicacy'—at the expense of an amatorculist, for instance.

A 'rant' consists of 'high sounding language unsupported by dignity of thought'.

A 'misdemeanour' is 'something less than an atrocious crime'. An 'uxorious' man is 'infected with connubial dotage'.

Obsession' is explained as 'the act of besieging' or 'the first attack of Satan, antecedent to possession'—a pair of definitions together more eloquent than the whole of Fatal Attraction.

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Vereker's secret… the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.

Don't underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s', I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

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People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

United States would become the indispensable defender of the order Europe designed.

The genius of this system, and the reason it spread across the world, was that its provisions were procedural, not substantive.

The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world