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“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
4,5 atmospheric, eccentric stars
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‘Mr Prime Minister,’ said Begin, ‘this is not a partisan matter for debate between the coalition and the opposition. It is a national issue of the highest order. We, the opposition, shall support any decision the government adopts to save
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Can you imagine this happening today? Politicians acting on behalf of their people/country and not on their own self-interest?
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“What can you do but, as Cicero says, live hopefully, die bravely?”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“I never gave them courage,” he said. “I was able to focus theirs.”
― The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
― The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
“Princess Margaret felt most at home in the company of the camp: the cultured and the waspish. It was to be her misfortune that such a high proportion of them kept diaries and moreover, diaries written with a view to publication. To a man they were mesmerised less by her image than by the cracks to be found in it.”
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
“Margaret thought the world cruel for seeing her as the negative version of her sister, yet it was also how she came to define herself. (...) On one side she was given an inflated sense of her own value, while on the other her confidence was continually undermined by comparisons with her sister. She was very spoilt and indulged and made to feel a very special person indeed, while simultaneously being given clearly to understand that it was her sister who was important.
She remained conscious of the image of the one who wasn’t and to some extent played on it: the one who wasn’t the queen, the one who wasn't taught constitutional history, because she wasn’t the one who’d be needing it; the one who wasn’t in the first coach and wouldn’t ever be the first onto Buckingham Palace balcony; the one who wasn’t given the important duties, but was obliged to make do with the also-rans.”
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
She remained conscious of the image of the one who wasn’t and to some extent played on it: the one who wasn’t the queen, the one who wasn't taught constitutional history, because she wasn’t the one who’d be needing it; the one who wasn’t in the first coach and wouldn’t ever be the first onto Buckingham Palace balcony; the one who wasn’t given the important duties, but was obliged to make do with the also-rans.”
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
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