Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.
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He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
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