"Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble."

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Source : Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton

Anthony Sampson

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“According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world . They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 314), 1943.
“The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.”
“contrary to what many believed, my father was kind and tenderhearted, especially towards his family. His forbidding sternness seemed to melt into love, kindness, and easy familiarity when he was with us. Especially with me, his acknowledged successor to the throne, he would play lightheartedly. When we were alone together, he would sing me little songs; I don't remember his ever doing this in front of others, but when only the two of us were there, he would often sing to me.”
“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”
“Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.”
“I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends”
“The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.”
“This is an old family secret, and I just found this out recently, and it almost broke my heart. My mother said to me, 'I had never told you this, but God, you were an ugly baby'.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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