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Week 1
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... History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other ...
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— A. J. Balfour
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... To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die ...
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— Thomas Campbell
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Week 2
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... History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other ...
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— A. J. Balfour
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... To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die ...
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— Thomas Campbell
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Week 3
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... If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness ...
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— Alexander Smith
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... America would have been a poor show had it not been for the Scots ...
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— Andrew Carnegie
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Week 4
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... If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness ...
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— Alexander Smith
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... America would have been a poor show had it not been for the Scots ...
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— Andrew Carnegie
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Week 5
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... Men are immortal till their work is done ...
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— David Livingstone
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... You can't worry too much about the future. Life is not a rehearsal ...
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— Billy Connolly
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Week 6
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... Men are immortal till their work is done ...
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— David Livingstone
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... You can't worry too much about the future. Life is not a rehearsal ...
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— Billy Connolly
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Week 7
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Week 8
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Week 9
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... I think for my part one half of the nation is mad – and the other not very sound ...
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— Tobias Smollett
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... Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice ...
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— Adam Smith
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Week 10
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... I think for my part one half of the nation is mad – and the other not very sound ...
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— Tobias Smollett
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... Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice ...
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— Adam Smith
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Week 11
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... I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... Kilt, n. - a costume sometimes worn by Scotsmen in America and Americans in Scotland ...
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— Ambrose Bierce
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Week 12
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... I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... Kilt, n. - a costume sometimes worn by Scotsmen in America and Americans in Scotland ...
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— Ambrose Bierce
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Week 13
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Week 14
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Week 15
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... Biography should be written by an acute enemy ...
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— A. J. Balfour
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... We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic ...
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— David Russell
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Week 16
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... Biography should be written by an acute enemy ...
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— A. J. Balfour
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... We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic ...
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— David Russell
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Week 17
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... Books are a finer world within the world ...
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— Alexander Smith
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... All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education ...
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— Sir Walter Scott
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Week 18
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... Books are a finer world within the world ...
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— Alexander Smith
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... All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education ...
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— Sir Walter Scott
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Week 19
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... The Scots are steadfast - not their clime ...
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— Thomas Crawford
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... We do have the greatest fans in the world but I’ve never seen a fan score a goal ...
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— Jock Stein
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Week 20
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... The Scots are steadfast - not their clime ...
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— Thomas Crawford
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... We do have the greatest fans in the world but I’ve never seen a fan score a goal ...
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— Jock Stein
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Week 21
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... Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions ...
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— James Mackintosh
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... Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Week 22
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... Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions ...
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— James Mackintosh
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... Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Week 23
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... History, a distillation of Rumour ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down ...
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— George MacDonald
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Week 24
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... History, a distillation of Rumour ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down ...
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— George MacDonald
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Week 25
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... Biography: One of the new terrors of death ...
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— John Arbuthnot
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... It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy ...
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— James Boswell
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Week 26
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... Biography: One of the new terrors of death ...
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— John Arbuthnot
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... It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy ...
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— James Boswell
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Week 27
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... Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life ...
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— Muriel Spark
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... It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding ...
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— Sydney Smith
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Week 28
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... Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life ...
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— Muriel Spark
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... It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding ...
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— Sydney Smith
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Week 29
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... If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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... The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it ...
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— Alexander Cockburn
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Week 30
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... If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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... The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it ...
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— Alexander Cockburn
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Week 31
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... Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly ...
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— George MacDonald
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... The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it ...
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— Adam Smith
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Week 32
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... Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly ...
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— George MacDonald
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... The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it ...
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— Adam Smith
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Week 33
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... The secret of long life is always be doing something you enjoy ...
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— Tom Weir
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... War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 34
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... The secret of long life is always be doing something you enjoy ...
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— Tom Weir
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... War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 35
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... Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness ...
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— Sir Walter Scott
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... The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn ...
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— David Russell
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Week 36
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... Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness ...
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— Sir Walter Scott
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... The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn ...
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— David Russell
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Week 37
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... Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man ...
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— Theodore Martin
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... Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex, and men need to have sex to feel loved,
so the basic act of continuing the species requires a lie from one of you ...
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— Billy Connolly
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Week 38
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... Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man ...
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— Theodore Martin
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... Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex, and men need to have sex to feel loved,
so the basic act of continuing the species requires a lie from one of you ...
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— Billy Connolly
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Week 39
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... It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are ...
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— James Mackintosh
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... Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last;
Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast. ...
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— Andrew Carnegie (on two aspects of the Scottish character)
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Week 40
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... It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are ...
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— James Mackintosh
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... Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last;
Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast. ...
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— Andrew Carnegie (on two aspects of the Scottish character)
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Week 41
“
... Come along inside. We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place ...
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— Kenneth Grahame
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... All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Week 42
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... Come along inside. We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place ...
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— Kenneth Grahame
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... All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Week 43
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Week 44
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Week 45
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... There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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... Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better ...
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— Margaret Oliphant
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Week 46
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... There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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... Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better ...
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— Margaret Oliphant
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Week 47
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... I fear I have nothing original in me excepting original sin ...
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— Thomas Campbell
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... Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time and you'll have the time of your life ...
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— Billy Connolly
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Week 48
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... I fear I have nothing original in me excepting original sin ...
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— Thomas Campbell
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... Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time and you'll have the time of your life ...
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— Billy Connolly
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Week 49
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... No man can become rich without himself enriching others ...
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— Andrew Carnegie
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... The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 50
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... No man can become rich without himself enriching others ...
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— Andrew Carnegie
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... The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 51
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... Politically correct is the language of cowardice ...
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— Billy Connolly
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... It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine ...
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— P. G. Wodehouse
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Week 52
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... Politically correct is the language of cowardice ...
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— Billy Connolly
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... It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine ...
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— P. G. Wodehouse
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