His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Bio: Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 1st Baron Pakenham known to his family as Frank Longford and as Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician and social reformer.