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C.S. Lewis
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
C.S. Lewis

T.S. Eliot
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

(Little Gidding)”
T.S. Eliot

Alan Bennett
“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

George Bernard Shaw
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)

"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response
George Bernard Shaw

William Morris
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
William Morris

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