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“The end came at me jagged and skewed like puzzle pieces to a game I didn’t know I was playing.”

“My dear father, only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.”

“If you don’t trust your man, you may as well run away at once. That’s what some of our horses do, and I don’t blame them.

“Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer had a wonderful way of working together. And some of the time you would say it was luck, and some of the time you would say it was weather. They would go through the house like a hurricane, and no sober person could take his oath Was it Mungojerrie – or Rumpelteazer? Or could you have sworn that it mightn’t be both?”

“You want to know how I got these scars. I swallowed my pride and then it crawled its way out of my mouth.”

″‘How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!’ I said I’d rather be in a Charlotte Bronte. ‘Which would be nicest- Jane with a touch of Charlotte, or Charlotte with a touch of Jane.‘”

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”

“An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.”

“And were they really so different?”