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Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government.
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The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.
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Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.
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He [Lloyd George] can't see a belt without hitting below it.
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The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.... There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
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The announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.
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On spiritualism:
I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.
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All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light...
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Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.
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One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
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I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.
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I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.
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Margot Asquith
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Born:
February 2, 1864
Died:
July 28, 1945
(aged 81)
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Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, known as Margot Asquith, was an Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit. She was married to H. H. Asquith, a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1894 until his death in 1928.
Known for:
Margot Asquith an Autobiography (1920)
My Impressions Of America (1922)
The Autobiography of Margot Asquith Volume 1
An Autobiography, Vol. 1 of 2
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