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«The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth /the power to love /although I have put it last, is the rarest.»
Author: Margot Asquith
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fourth, humbleness, interpretation, intrepid, rarest, servility, widest
«It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life»
«There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs /apart from discernment /a certain greatness to find him.»
Author: Margot Asquith
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discernment
«Jean Harlow [Hollywood's sexy actress] kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name, or kept trying to: she pronounced it Margot. Finally Margot set her right. `No, no, Jean. The t is silent as in Harlow.'»
Author: Margot Asquith
| Keywords:
Asquith, first name, Harlow, jean, Jean Harlow, pronounced, The T
«Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.»
«She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.»
«The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.»
Author: Margot Asquith
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free people, ingrained, pathetically, people of England, personal liberty, The Americans, titles, untrue
«What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.»
Author: Margot Asquith
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America and Americans
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Christopher, Christopher Columbus, Columbus, mentioned
«Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.»
Author: Margot Asquith
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brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, bull, Bull Fighting, demoralize, demoralizing, drawback, drawbacks, headlines, obsession, overrated, over here, public press, rape, rubbish
«He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head»
Author: Margot Asquith
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