Paul Scott Quotes
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The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
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The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.
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Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.
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There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.
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Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
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The structure of a friendship is seldom submitted to analysis until it comes under pressure.
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Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
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One always saw and sees through pretense.
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English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.