Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dewar: "Did you ever say you were fed up with the ship on which I was your flag captain...
...came to England 40 years ago like a troubadour, to revolutionize English letters. I have been boycotted and spurned. I say now that this generation is the most sterile of any there has been in the way of literature. Not one of my living contemporaries is worth talking about. . . . Conrad's work will be dead in a year. Anyone could write the stuff he wrote about barges floating in green-blue hazes. . . . Thomas Hardy couldn't write two lines of correct English and . . . had no insight into human nature...
...quite untrue that any conflict . . . has taken place or is about to take place. ... It is well to say that such an interpretation is not true, although it is recognized that such an impression may have arisen from the sudden action of the Italian Cabinet* so soon after the Pope's speech...
...call me Master and Lord: and ye say well...
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent...