Quote #13

Through the pages of [her book] Lay Sermons walk the great. I don't say that Margot Asquith actually permits us to rub elbows with them ourselves, but she willingly shows us her own elbow, which has been, so to say, honed on the mighty.

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  1. ... no matter where she takes off from, she brings the discourse back to Margot Asquith. Such singleness of purpose is met but infrequently.
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  3. The t is silent, as in Harlow.
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  5. He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
  6. She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
  7. He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
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