"I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes."
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"The first quality that is needed is audacity."
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"I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."
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"Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat."
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"Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."
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"If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire."
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"Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance."
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"Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man."
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"We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known."
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"Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess."
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"The most important thing about education is appetite."
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"The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it."
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"Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work."
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"The only guide to man is his conscience."
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"We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm."
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"Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation."
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"Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen."
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"Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth."
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"Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world"
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"No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it."
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