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My Impressions of America (1922)quoted in Mark Bonham Carter's introduction to Margot Asquith, Autobiography (first published 1936, repr. 1962)The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (1920)The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (1922)

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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs—apart from discernment—a certain greatness to find him.

Margot Asquith

Margot Asquith (1864–1945), British socialite. The Autobiography of Margot Asquith, vol. 1, ch. 8 (1920).

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