Commonplace Book

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The bulwark of Corfe Castle dominated the politics of eastern Dorset for centuries, until the castle was slighted in the Civil War.[/caption]

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It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
—P.G. Wodehouse

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At 60 mph the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.
—David Oglivy

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The sky was clear—remarkably clear—and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
—Thomas Hardy

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Will Washington take America or smugglers England first?
—Lord Pembroke, 1781