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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
This book had fascinated ...more "
‘It seems to me,’ said Philippa prosaically, ‘that on the whole we run more risks with Mr Crawford’s protection than without it.’
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
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“The two of them, the group captain and the princess had called it a day.four years before when she was 25 years old. But when you are royal, nothing is allowed to be forgotten. That is the price to pay for being part of history.”
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
“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
“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
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