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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius (Oscar Wilde, The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde)

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn’t have been able to meet

The use of the blockade against Germany to starve large numbers of people to death broke through the moral barrier against the mass killing of civilians. It was the precedent for the ‘conventional’ bombing of civilians in the Second World War and then for the use of the atomic bomb

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