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“A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.”
― The Fry Chronicles
― The Fry Chronicles
“That's one form of magic, of course."
"What, just knowing things?"
"Knowing things that other people don't know.”
― Equal Rites
"What, just knowing things?"
"Knowing things that other people don't know.”
― Equal Rites
“ALWAYS REMEMBER that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.”
― Going Postal
― Going Postal
“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.”
― Antigone
― Antigone
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