27 Quotes by John Holmes



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    Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

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    Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

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    This money will help make the railway a viable transport link in the Wear Valley. It will help rebuild the infrastructure and part fund newly created jobs on the system.

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    A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness

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