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This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity — or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity — by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
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We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
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If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet.
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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
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The cult of a year ago has dwindled and become, as religions tend to, the preserve of children, homosexuals and lonely housewives.
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As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
A. N. Wilson
Born:
October 27, 1950
(age 73)
Bio:
Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views.
Known for:
The Victorians (2002)
Dante in Love (2011)
Winnie and Wolf: A Novel (2007)
Paul-the Mind of the Apostle (1997)
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