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There is no place where a man can occupy himself more intensively or usefully, and no place where he can hold down his job by doing so little.
Of the House of Commons
Nigel Nicolson
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Nigel Nicolson
Born:
January 19, 1917
Died:
September 23, 2004
(aged 87)
Bio:
Nigel Nicolson was an English writer, publisher and politician.
Known for:
Portrait of a Marriage (1973)
The world of Jane Austen (1991)
Long Life: Memoirs (1998)
Virginia Woolf (2000)
The Queen and us (2003)
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