Good Advice
"DP ISRAELI wrote and said many good things and some of. them still live. He wrote: ‘You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.’ He described Sir Robert Peel as having caught his opponents bathing and walked away with their clothes. Although he once lamented ‘I get duller every day,’ he never did. He generally followed his own advice — be ‘amusing, never tell unkind stories, above all, never tell long ones."--A. P. Ryan, former Controller of the BBC News Division, giving some of his favourite ‘passages from English literature.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 19
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98Good Advice New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 19
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