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Miss Asquith, who was probably unsurpassed in intelligence by any of her contemporaries ... looked like a lovely figure in an Italian fresco.
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- Death is part of this life and not of the next.
- To regret your sins of commission as much as your sins of omission is to prove yourself a most unworthy sinner.
- Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side.