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“Friendship is something to be built up carefully, by people with leisure, it is an art, nature does not enter into it.”

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Book:The Pursuit of Love

Source: The Pursuit of Love

“Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.”

Middle Class Birth Control Impotence Sodomy Evelyn Waugh Nancy Mitford

Book:Noblesse oblige: an enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy

Source: Noblesse oblige: an enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy

“Thelma Cazalet MP, unlike most of the other British 'honoured guests' attending [the 1938 Reichsparteitag], was strongly anti-Nazi and had accepted Ribbentrop's invitation only because she thought it important 'to be aware of what was going on.' As she entered the dining room of the Grand Hotel on the first night, she immediately caught sight of Unity Mitford seated at the long 'British' table with her parents Lord and Lady Redesdale. 'Unity is alarmingly pretty,' she wrote in her diary, 'but I have never seen anyone so pretty with absolutely no charm in her face and a rather stupid expression.”

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Book:Travellers in the Third Reich

Source: Travellers in the Third Reich