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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemis

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. – Virginia Woolf

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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

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Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. – Virginia Woolf

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Experience
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. – Virginia Woolf

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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for Tis only to them that they are blessings. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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What is the use of your pedigrees? – Juvenal

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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead. – Nancy Mitford

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Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Wed be working in our motel room through the night, and Id come up with an idea at two in the morning, and hed start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever. – Arthur Hiller

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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. – Paul Eldridge

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