61 Quotes by A. J. P. Taylor

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    The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

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    Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

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    One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

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    Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

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