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Quite recently, to his horror, he had realized he would have to get a job. He was therefore studying to become a barrister, in the hope that he would find some pleasure in keeping as many criminals as possible at large.

— Edward St. Aubyn

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Of course it was wrong to want to change people, but what else could you possibly want to do with them?

What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises.

It must be hard to be exclusively social and entirely friendless at the same time.

No man is an island — although one’s known a surprising number who own one.

The tragedy of old age, when a man’s too weak to hit his own child.

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