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It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.
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The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead.
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The way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.
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Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
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It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
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There is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.
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Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!
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Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.
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All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.
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I am proud that I am an Australian, a daughter of the Southern Cross, a child of the mighty bush.
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What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
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To grow up in intimate association with nature — animal and vegetable — is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.
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Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.
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There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.
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It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.
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I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.
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Grandpa... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.
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Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.
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Weariness! Weariness! This was life — my life — my career, my brilliant career! I was fifteen — fifteen! A few fleeting hours and I would be as old as those around me.
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Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.
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It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.
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In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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Born:
October 14, 1879
Died:
September 19, 1954
(aged 74)
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