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Books are the greatest and the most satisfactory of recreations. I mean the use of books for pleasure. Without books, without having acquired the power of reading for pleasure, none of us can be independent, but if we can read we have a sure defence against boredom in solitude.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Recreation (1919)

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The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

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We are in the presence of a European conflagration; can anybody set limits to the consequences that may arise out of it?

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Poetry is the greatest literature, and pleasure in poetry is the greatest of literary pleasures. It is also the least easy to attain and there are some people who never do attain it.

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If her independence goes, the independence of Holland will follow.

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It is sometimes said that this is a pleasure-seeking age. Whether it be a pleasure-seeking age or not, I doubt whether it is a pleasure-finding age.

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