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Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future

Book by Winston Churchill · 4 quotes · Leisure, Art, Being Happy

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Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future Quotes

“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.”

“One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.”