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The world has turned upside down. The best golfer in the world is black; the best rapper in the world is white; and now there is a war and, guess what, Germany doesn't want to be in it.
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I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war.
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I generally assume that childhoods more or less ended with the First World War.... Anyone born after 1940 got the Utility version, childhood according to the Authorized Economy Standard.
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Headmaster: I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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May 9, 1934
(age 90)
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