Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past, Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be late.
Nancy Mitford
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Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When ones friends marry for money they are wretched when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for I should like to know
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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
- Nancy Mitford