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Birth seems to me so sorry and squalid an accident . . . if fathers and mothers took thought before bringing children into this misery of a world, only the monsters among them would dare to go through with it.

— T. E. Lawrence

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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

Do not try to do too much with your own hands.

Twenty-Seven Articles (1917)

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)

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