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I rather enjoy patronage. I take a lot of trouble over it. At least it makes all those years of reading Trollope seem worthwhile.

— Harold Macmillan

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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down before the divine right of experts.

Forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion.

Nonsense, there are no clubs around Victoria.

First of all the Georgian Silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the salon. Then the Canalettos go.

America is “the new Roman empire and we Britons, like the Greeks of old, must teach them how to make it go.”

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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