D. J. Taylor Quotes

• The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War).

  D. J. Taylor

  War, Numbers, History

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• Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.

  D. J. Taylor

  Hate, Numbers, People

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