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If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
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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It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.
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I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.
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Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
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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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[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.
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You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.
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The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends
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Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government.
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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.
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I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.
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Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say I am doing no harm, I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.
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My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.
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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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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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The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
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The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.
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He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
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All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.
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