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He (the Professor) was a failure but did his best to hide it. One of his failings was that he could barely write, except in a twelfth century hand, in Latin, with abbreviations.

— T. H. White Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)

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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

The Godstone and the Blackymor (1959)

The best thing for being sad … is to learn something.

The Sword in the Stone (1963)

God is love, the bishops tell.
Yes, I know, But love is hell.

God is love, the parson whined.
Yes, and is he also blind?

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.

The Once and Future King (1958)

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