And there you sit gloating over what you have done as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor as complacent and smug and misunderstood as a princess from the moon forced to herd goats

And there you sit gloating over what you have done as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor as complacent and smug and misunderstood as a princess from the moon forced to herd goats
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He says to me Ranulph he says... that the past will never come again but that we must remember that the past is made of the present and that the present is always here.
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A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.
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And there you sit gloating over what you have done as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor as complacent and smug and misunderstood as a princess from the moon forced to herd goats Hope Mirrlees

And there you sit gloating over what you have done as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor as complacent and smug and misunderstood as a princess from the moon forced to herd goats
Hope Mirrlees