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From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
Margaret Halsey
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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
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I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12 x 8 black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.
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Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.
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The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.
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Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.
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The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
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The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
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the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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