Stanley Baldwin/prime Minister 1924-1929

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    Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
    —Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944)

    When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
    —James Baldwin (1924–1987)

    And this must be the prime of life . . . I blink,
    As if at pain; for it is pain, to think
    This pantomime
    Of compensating act and counter-act,
    Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,
    My ablest time.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    But, my dear, you cannot live in isolation from the human race, you know.
    John Clifford, U.S. screenwriter, and Herk Harvey. Minister (Stan Levitt)