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I Was Happy As A Child With My Toys In My Nursery. I Been Happier Every Year Since I Became A Man. But This Interlude Of School Makes A Somber Grey Patch Upon The Chart Of My Journey. It Was A Unending Spell Of Worries That Did Not Then Seem Petty, And Of Toil Uncheered By Fruition; A Time Of Discomfort, Restriction And Purposeless Monotony.

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I Was Happy As A Child With My Toys In My Nursery. I Been Happier Every Year Since I Became A Man. But This Interlude Of School Makes A Somber Grey Patch Upon The Chart Of My Journey. It Was A Unending Spell Of Worries That Did Not Then Seem Petty, And Of Toil Uncheered By Fruition; A Time Of Discomfort, Restriction And Purposeless Monotony.

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We Would Rather See London Laid In Ruins And Ashes Than That It Should Be Tamely And Abjectly Enslaved.

It Is Better To Be Making The News Than Taking It, To Be An Actor Rather Than A Critic.

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I Drink And Smoke And I Am Two Hundred Percent Fit.

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A World United Is Better Than A World Divided, But A World Divided Is Better Than A World Destroyed.

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Let Us Reconcile Ourselves To The Mysterious Rhythm Of Our Destinies, Such As They Must Be In This World Of Space And Time.

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If Europe Were Once United In The Sharing Of Its Common Inheritance There Would Be No Limit To The Happiness, The Prosperity, And The Glory Which Its Three Or Four Million People Would Enjoy.

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