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Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books. – Simon Raven

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Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. – Simon Raven

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Attitude
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And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. – Simon Raven

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He travels the fastest who travels alone. – Rudyard Kipling

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It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand theres the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, theres the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. – Jello Biafra

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Work alone is noble. – Thomas Carlyle

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Wisdom alone is true ambitions aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. – Alfred North Whitehead

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