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“I know quite well that I can appear insufferable and annoying. Worse than that, I know that I can appear insufferable and annoying without intending to do so. (An old definition of a gentleman: someone who is never rude except on purpose.)”
― Christopher Hitchens

“The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

“You can tell a lot about a country which refers to the Royal Mint and the National Debt.”
― William Cobbett

“Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like other knives,
That cost me eighteen pence.

I need but stick it in my heart
And down will come the sky,
And earth's foundations will depart
And all you folk will die.”
― A.E. Housman, More Poems