It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters … - P. G. Wodehouse

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Hamas cannot make peace with the Israelis. That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels, only a ceasefire.

P. G. Wodehouse

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

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I always advise people never to give advice.

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Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.

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I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

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A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

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Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

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I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of the British constitution. You placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many, many years. Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence? Cannot you trust me to ensure a square deal to secure even justice between man and man?

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