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Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
- Winston Churchill

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
- William Shakespeare

Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau

V. S. Pritchett Quotes and Quotations

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

- V. S. Pritchett | Genius Quotes

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

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One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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