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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

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I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

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Whose life is it anyway?

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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

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