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Decline and Fall (1928)
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.
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They should have told me that at the end of that gay journey and flower-strewn path were the hideous lights of home and the voices of children.
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Mr. Sniggs, the Junior Dean, and Mr. Postlethwaite, the Domestic Bursar, sat alone in Mr. Sniggs's room overlooking the garden quad at Scone College.
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
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I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behavior.
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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
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People change and forget to tell each other. Too bad –causes so many mistakes.
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Born:
October 28, 1903
Died:
April 10, 1966
(aged 62)
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