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What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
J. B. Priestley
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J. B. Priestley
Age: 89 †
Born: 1894
Born: September 13
Died: 1984
Died: August 14
Journalist
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Bradford
Yorkshire
John Boynton Priestley
J Priestley
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.
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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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I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
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