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“Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.”

Quote by Basil Bunting

Book:The Poems of Basil Bunting

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The Poems of Basil Bunting

This volume includes a selection of Basil Bunting's works, reflecting his innovative approach to poetry and his exploration of various themes and subjects. more

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Basil Bunting was an English poet known for his concise and precise style. His works often revolve around natural landscapes and philosophical contemplations, earning him praise from readers and critics alike. more

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“Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.”

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...

“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.”

Men Desire Belief Difficult Youth Despair Spring Prepared Injustice Privilege Disappointment Optimistic Agony Outrage Hopefulness

Book:The Galantrys

Source: The Galantrys

“Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.”

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Book:Crime and Mr. Campion

Source: Crime and Mr. Campion

“People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.”

People May Change Difficulty Enormous

Book:No Love Lost

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“A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.”

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“the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.”

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“There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.”

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Author:Margery Allingham

“Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.”

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“Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.”

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“Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.”

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Book:Three Cases for Mr. Campion

Source: Three Cases for Mr. Campion