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that he could have been a model in a magazine, though he didn’t give the impression that it was all too perfect. It looked casual, and naturally neat. And that abundant white hair of his was, like the walls of his mansion, a pure,
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“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop."
[New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]”
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[New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]”
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“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
― Their Finest Hour
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
― Their Finest Hour
“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
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Julia’s 2024 Year in Books
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