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Book: The Last Lion: Volume 1: Winston Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874 - 1932
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  1. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Volume 1:

    He believed that of all languages English was was incomparably superior. On his tongue it was.
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  2. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Volume 1:

    And he despised pedants. A junior civil servant had tortuously re-worded a sentence to avoid ending with a preposition. The Prime Minister scrawled across the page, "This is nonsense up with which I will not put.
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  3. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Volume 1:

    He loved books and wrote of them: "if you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle or, as it were, fondle them: peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on their shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what it is in them, you will at least know where they are. Let them be your friends. Let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.
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