“One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.”
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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