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It is not easy nowadays to remember anything so contrary to all appearances as that officials are the servants of the public; and the official must try not to foster the illusion that it is the other way round.
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I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Ernest Gowers
Born:
June 2, 1880
Died:
April 16, 1966
(aged 85)
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Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers is best remembered for his book Plain Words, first published in 1948, and for his revision of Fowler's Modern English Usage.
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