To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.More Malcolm Bradbury quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.More Malcolm Bradbury quotes [10/15/2011 09:10:01]
The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.More Malcolm Bradbury quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.More Malcolm Bradbury quotes [10/15/2011 09:10:57]
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.More Malcolm Bradbury quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
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