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The Wit And Wisdom Of Mankind

A. N. Wilson tracq uotations — 'quotes', as schoolboys call them — may be defined as any ex- from a work of literature, or any famous saying, which puzzlers over The Times......

Unleavened

Robert Stewart A Soldier's View of Empire. The Reminiscences of James Bodell, 1831-92. Keith Sinclair (ed.) (The Bodley Head £7.95) W e all know the type. He left home at 16 to......