The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness when in fact I am amiable indulgent affectionate shy and rather timid at heart.

J. B. Priestley
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  1. I sometimes wish they would swagger more now buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats and retain those traces of make-up that put them outside respectability and keep them rogues and vagabonds which is what at heart - bless 'em - they are.

  2. One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!

  3. The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them yet cannot make plain his difference.

  4. Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

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