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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.

Margot Asquith
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I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.

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What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

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She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.

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If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

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[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

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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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It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

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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 …

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Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

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