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He was a provocative, aggressive, contrary old man, enunciating his theories in clipped tones as though they were papal encyclicals.

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Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
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James Lees-Milne

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:
  1. Another Self (1970)
  2. Ancestral Voices (1975)
  3. Diaries, 1942-1954 (1995)
  4. Roman mornings (1956)
  5. Ancient As the Hills (1997)

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