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I never saw Monty James's writing but doubt whether he can have been more illegible than Lady Colefax: the only hope of deciphering her invitations, someone said, was to pin them up on the wall and run past them!

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I'm also told that the latest popular game in America is called Incest—all the family can join in!

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Rupert Hart-Davis

Rupert Hart-Davis

Born: August 28, 1907
Died: December 8, 1999 (aged 92)
Bio: Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis was an English publisher and editor. He founded the publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd.
Known for:
  1. The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
  2. Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters
  3. Halfway to heaven (1998)
  4. De Profundis: And The Ballad of Reading Gaol
  5. The Glass Coffin and Other Stories (1962)

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