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War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old.

— Olivia Manning

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An age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.

'She’s just a typical bourgeois reactionary.’ ‘You mean, her prejudices are different from yours.'

Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads.

Was there any more repellent sight than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself?

The Spoilt City (1962)

This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy.

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Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)

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