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I'm just wondering whether going back to the mundane bread-and-butter stuff of legal work must be kind of boring, no?


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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Everything they said she has to be she's contradicted. She's small and has a tough look, her face is...
PAUL MORLEY Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it wa...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY It was just a bang and then I heard sirens.
JOHN MORLEY Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY