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In 1917 I was only beginning to learn that life, for the majority of the population, is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds, culminating in a cheap funeral.
Siegfried Sassoon
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On the importance of speaking French fluently rather than accurately:
It's nerve and brass, audace and disrespect, and leaping-before-you-look and what-the-hellism, that must be developed.
Diana Cooper
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I am fit for nothing but to carry candles and set chairs all my life.
Lord Hervey
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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
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