“One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.”

—  Margot Asquith

The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) p. 63. (1920).

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Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit 1864–1945

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