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There is something very good in pride of race if you can be satisfied in your heart it is absolutely genuine and is based on things you have see, heard and felt rather than on those you have read.

— Margery Allingham The Oaken Heart (1941)

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Telling the truth is the basis of all classic art.

The Oaken Heart (1941)

To be free takes a lot of time and trouble.

The Oaken Heart (1941)

Few people can see God, and it seems an even bolder mind to see the Devil. Active evil is more incomprehensible than active good, and so it ought to be.

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As a nation, we English will fight and die for principles we cannot find time to teach in our free schools.

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We, me and thee and the parson and all the other lads in the village constitute the public, and the politicians are our servants.

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