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February 8, 2025

The main advantage of being famous is that when you bore people at dinner they think it is their fault.

Henry Kissinger (1923- ), American foreign policy maker, James Naughtie in Spectator, 1 April 1995; attributed, Jay p.214

Wouldn’t that be nice? Do you usually bore other dinner guests?

Kissinger probably got away with that far too often.

December 24, 2025

2 months ago

Tories, in short, are atrophied Englishmen, lacking certain moral and intellectual reflexes.

September 19, 2025

5 months ago

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe;

June 24, 2025

8 months ago

A politician was a person with whose politics you did not agree. When you did agree, he was a statesman.

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