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Arthur Bryant, a renowned British columnist, was born on February 18, 1899, and passed away on January 22, 1985. His works are known for their profound social insight and unique literary style, which have had a profound impact on the British literary world.

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“Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte.”

Way Certain Grows Wind Shadow Adversity Sunshine Sooner Or Later

Author:Arthur Bryant

“All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.”

People May Said Nations Common Race Produce Poet Accounts Patient Practicals Common Sense Paradox Strain Explorers Adventurer Shopkeepers

Author:Arthur Bryant

“When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.”

Persons Kings Relation Hats Customs Covered Royal Explaining Human Relations Quaker

Author:Arthur Bryant

“To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do something with one's own without interference by the king or any other man.”

Men Mind Liberty Kings Property Enjoyment Medieval Interference

Book:Set in a silver sea: the island peoples from earliest times to the fifteenth century

Source: Set in a silver sea: the island peoples from earliest times to the fifteenth century

“Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.”

Men World Trying Half Trouble Seasons Arise Anticipate Other Half

Author:Arthur Bryant

“Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.”

Humans Soul Evil Dignity Ultimate Slavery Denial Human Soul

Author:Arthur Bryant

“And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.”

Thinking Brain Records Growing Ought Dinner Reports Secretary Farewell Great Ones Administrative Administrative Professionals Day Administrative Professionals

Book:The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years Based on the Diares of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff

Source: The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years Based on the Diares of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff

“Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.”

Writers And Writing Writing By Writers

Author:Arthur Bryant

“Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.”

Years Stills Real Five Thirds Property Five Years Legislation Persecution Berlin November Anti Semitic Real Property

Book:Unfinished victory

Source: Unfinished victory

About the Author

Born: February 18, 1899
Died: January 22, 1985
Known for: Columnist
Quotes: 9

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Set in a silver sea: the island peoples from earliest times to the fifteenth centuryRelated source material

The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years Based on the Diares of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General StaffRelated source material

Unfinished victoryRelated source material

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