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January 5 - February 2, 2013
“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future,”
All his life, critics had called his language florid and overstated. After Dunkirk, overstating England’s plight was impossible; after forty years in Parliament, he had finally been provided with a canvas high enough and broad enough to bear his
brilliant colors.
Theodore Dreiser’s line in Sister Carrie “How true it is that words are but vague shadow...
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he thought a mask of superficial charm could compensate for never having read a book.”
“For all that I thank God I was given an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this earth.”45
“Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.”
“We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.”
