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Twelve against the gods (1929)
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The adventurer is within us, and he contests for our favor with the social man we are obliged to be. These two sorts of life are incompatible; one we hanker after, the other we are obliged to. There is no other conflict so deep and bitter as this.
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The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.
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An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.
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It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
Betty Ford
William Bolitho Ryall
Born:
January, 1891
Died:
June 2, 1930
(aged 39)
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