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Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that...

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one should never assume anything

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

Banker

Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be total...

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If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six tim...

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But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tel...

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10 lb Penalty

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

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It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.

10 lb Penalty

I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they...

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10 lb Penalty

But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, eve...

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Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me perso...

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Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and ...

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Dick Francis

Jockey

Born: 1920-10-31

Died: 2010-02-14

Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British jockey and horse racing crime writer.More