My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.