Sir John Spencer

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“People’s backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.”
—Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

“It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.”
—Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)