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The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.
J. B. Priestley
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J. B. Priestley
Age: 89 †
Born: 1894
Born: September 13
Died: 1984
Died: August 14
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John Boynton Priestley
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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
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To resent and remember brings strife to forgive and forget brings peace.
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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
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