public-school quotes

  That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out but they never let you down.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Decline and Fall, pt.1, ch.3.

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums,Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Decline and Fall, pt.3, ch.4.

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