Laurence Housman

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

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These are some quotes by English author Laurence Housman Playwright, who lived between July 18, 1865 and February 20, 1959.

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Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.

Laurence Housman

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I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

Laurence Housman

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I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

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