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Telling
No one in history has ever done yoga without telling someone else about it. Lloyd Evans, The Spectator, 18th October, 2025
Conquered
With my 26 soldiers of lead I have conquered the world. Johannes Gutenberg, d. 1486
Fun
One book that does not appear in the list of Churchill’s writings is a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. It was not for lack of interest....
Difference
Harold Macmillan was asked the difference between a cad and a bounder. A bounder, he explained, was a man who seduced the colonel’s wife...
MASTERS
MBH (i) Master of Basset Hounds MBH (ii) Master of Buckhounds MHB Master of Harriers and Beagles MFH Master of...
Without
I kissed Bob without fastening my safety belt. Liz in Len Deighton's , 'Only When I laugh', Michael Joseph, 1968
Drape
She behaved like most of us do when in love; she never thought of her beloved as a human being at all, but only as an image upon which to...
Noted
He was born into a Carmarthenshire family noted, (as he wrote), "for two things: one was illegitimacy, the other was farting." Obituary...
Remarkably
Immediately after the sinking of the Japanese Heavy cruiser Haguro on the night of 14-15th May, 1945, still a midshipman, he returned to...
Snobbery
What C.S. Lewis called the "snobbery of chronology" encourages us to presume that just because we happen to have lived after our...
Magnifique
The following rules apply to priority seating on the Paris Metro and they are typically French in their Byzantine complexity. There are...
Check out
First aired on 19th September, 1975, John Cleese's dysfunctional hotel lives on today not least in a current, hugely popular stage play ....
Imitations
Angela Lyne’s smartness was individual; she was plainly not one of those who scrambled to buy the latest gadget in the few breathless...
Distressingly
In this distressingly frivolous story Miss Gibbons points her satyrical finger at a certain type of much-read, earthy, passionate novel -...
Stealing
Poor John Dennis. In 1709, the playwright devised a novel technology to simulate thunder to accompany his drama Appius and Virginia....
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