He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
Margot Asquith
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Ettie is an ox: she will be made into Bovril when she dies.
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
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.
The t is silent, as in Harlow.
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs -apart from discernment -a certain greatness to find him.
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
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