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Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own. Wystan Hugh Auden		Saturday Mar 28, 2026
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Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal. Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

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	Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
	Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (3 August 1867 - 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and thrice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Read More

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Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time patience.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.