Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
—Maurice Baring
Topics: Memory
Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.
—Maurice Baring
Topics: Manners
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John Dryden English Poet
Pico Iyer British-born Essayist, Novelist of Indian Origin
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J. R. R. Tolkien British Philologist, Writer
George Orwell English Novelist, Essayist, Journalist
G. K. Chesterton English Journalist
Anthony Burgess English Novelist, Critic
Eden Phillpotts English Author, Poet, Dramatist
John Galsworthy English Novelist, Playwright
Wilkie Collins (1824–89) English Novelist, Playwright, Short-story Writer