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There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.
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Newsweek, March 25, 1979.

 

Alan Ayckbourn

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If thou seek rest in this life, how wilt them then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace — not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.

 

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