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Meanwhile, the kittens - downholsterers and interior desecrators to a kitten - demolish all.

— Patrick Leigh Fermor In Tearing Haste. Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Edited by Charlotte Mosley (2008)

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I constantly find myself saying `I must write — or tell — that to Joan', then suddenly remember that one can't, and nothing seems to have any point.

More Dashing. Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor. Edited by Adam Sisman (2018)

THE INTERNATIONAL PRIMATE PROTECTION LEAGUE. This came, usual thing asking for money. Poor Archbishops, I thought, feeling the pinch. But it turned out to be monkeys.

In Tearing Haste. Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Edited by Charlotte Mosley (2008)

Here's a riddle to change the subject: what English catch-phrase, indicating someone is better than he seems, would also apply to a yacht owner whose vessel is even more dangerous than the inlet in which she is anchored? - His barque is worse than his bight.

In Tearing Haste. Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Edited by Charlotte Mosley (2008)

[the sale of his two trunks from the Harrods Depository] 'still aches sometimes, like an old wound in wet weather'

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