Six Men (1977) (edit title/settings)

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• Charlie Chaplin: Neither in love nor in friendship did he ever tread water. He regularly took a header into deep water, and the splash usually shocked his envious neighbors.
• Edward VIII: The most damning epitaph you can compose about Edward--as a Prince, as a King, as a man--is one that all comfortable people should cower from deserving: he was at his best only when the going was good.
• H.L. Mencken: It is true that he disliked puritans, teetotalers, Communists, Englishmen, Methodists, and politicians on principle. But if one presented himself who was otherise a rational and agreeable man, he spontaneously filed and forgot his prejudice.
• Adlai Stevenson: He remains the liveliest reminder for our time that there are admirable reasons for failing to be President.
• Bertrand Russell: Sometime, somewhere, Russell sweated to believe, the rational man would make a decent world of his instincts. This is, of course, not a new conviction... But... Russell gave the struggle to make it come true the dimensions of a Greek tragedy.
• Humphrey Bogart: Many first acquaintances were dropped at once when, out of shyness probably, they tried to adopt some of the Bogart bluster in the hope of showing right away that they were his sort. One of his own sort was enough for him.

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1. Alistair Cooke (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: CT0120.C067 1977
• Dewey: 920.710904

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• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Political
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Reference & Collections
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical