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Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.

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