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There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.

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'Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.'

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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

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I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

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Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.

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