Quote of the day
You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
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)