Quote of the day
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
James Lees-Milne

Born: 1908
Died: 1997 (aged 89)
Bio: James Henry Lees-Milne was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer: his extensive diaries remain in print.
Known for:
- Another Self (1970)
- Ancestral Voices (1975)
- Diaries, 1942-1954 (1995)
- Roman mornings (1956)
- Ancient As the Hills (1997)