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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.

— Margery Allingham The Oaken Heart (1941)

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Telling the truth is the basis of all classic art.

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To be free takes a lot of time and trouble.

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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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What attracted me the most of all to the detective story, was the protective covering offered to the author.

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