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"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."
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"I may be plucky, but I am not stupid."
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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
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"Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn."
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"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."
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"Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone."
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"They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade."
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"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."
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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
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"Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead."
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"I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me."
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"It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all."
Books
"Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment."
Time
"Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers."
Life
"It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment."
Home
"The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale."
Politics
"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write."
Want
"My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative."
Art
"My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together."
Brother
"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."
God
"The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted."
War
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