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#1. I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.

Malachy McCourt

#2. Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.

Simon Van Der Meer

#3. In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Euripides

#4. The speculator is not an investor.

Edwin Lefevre

#5. The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote of conduct and of the consequences of conduct: they were concerned with a society of will and commandment.

Cynthia Ozick

#6. I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.

Clement Freud

#7. Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.

Hannibal