# Quote — Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong

> I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

- Author: [Malcolm Bradbury](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury.md)
- Book: [Eating People is Wrong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/eating-people-is-wrong.md)
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> I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

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> With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

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> It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.

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