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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."

"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."

"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."

"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."
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