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John Clare: 'I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.'

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John Clare: 'The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.'

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John Clare: 'My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.'

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John Clare: 'I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.'

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John Clare: 'I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.'

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John Clare: 'And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.'

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John Clare: 'I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.'

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John Clare: 'He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.'

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John Clare: 'If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.'

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Robert Hall: 'In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.'

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Robert Hall: 'We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.'

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Robert Hall: 'Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.'

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Robert Hall: 'We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.'

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Robert Hall: 'In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.'

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Emily Watson: 'I sometimes feel like it's difficult for people to relate to me, until they spend, like, a day with me, and until they walk around with me in public.'

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Emily Watson: 'I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.'

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Emily Watson: 'I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.'

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Emily Watson: 'I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.'

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Emily Watson: 'I've always been creative, I think.'

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Emily Watson: 'Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.'

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