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the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

Margot Asquith

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Margot Asquith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1864
Born: January 1
Died: 1945
Died: January 1
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County of Peebles
Margot Asquith
Countess of Oxford and Asquith
Emma Alice Margaret Tennant
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The spirit is an inward flame a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
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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.
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There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.
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[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.
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The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.
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The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
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My father's nature turned out no waste product he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
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Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.
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I do not say I was ever what I would call plain, but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.
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