British Book Award

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“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”
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“In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can’t improve on these.”
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“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
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