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Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes and Quotations
When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable. St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel. |