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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. 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.

Margot Asquith
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Margot Asquith's Popular Quotes

I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.

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

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

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

- Margot Asquith
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