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Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

— Simon Raven The Decline of the Gentleman (1962)

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Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.

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The highest moral character can procure one no preference among the shades.

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I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another.

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