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August 5, 2025

[On being prime minister] Sometimes the strain is awful, you have to resort to Jane Austen.

Harold Macmillan (1894–1986), British Conservative politician, prime minister, in the Butler Papers; Peter Hennessy The Hidden Wiring (1995), Jay p.245

How well do you deal with strain? Is that the best you can do?

Better Austen, than alcohol, affairs, or alternative strategies for relieving the strain. Besides, in every Austen novel, after great turmoil, things turn out right in the end.

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