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“Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.”

Quote by Alan Sillitoe

Book:New and Collected Stories

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New and Collected Stories

This book brings together a selection of short stories, offering readers a glimpse into the author's creative range and exploration of various themes across different genres and settings. more

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Alan Sillitoe was a British writer known for his novels depicting the lives of the working class. His works profoundly revealed the social conflicts and class differences in the mid-20th-century British industrial society. more

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“I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.”

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Book:New and Collected Stories

Source: New and Collected Stories

“The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.”

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“The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.”

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“No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.”

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“My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.”

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“Ability is active power, or power to perform.”

Book:A Manual of Useful Studies: For the Instruction of Young Persons of Both Sexes, in Families and Schools

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“Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.”

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“To suppose that man without language taught himself to speak, seems to me as absurd as it would be to suppose that without legs he could teach himself to walk. Language, therefore, must have been the immediate gift of God.”

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“There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.”

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Book:A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790

Source: A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790

“Might his last glance behold the glorious ensign of the Republic still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in all their original lustre.”

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