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

James Lees-Milne

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Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
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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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