“The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.”

—  Margot Asquith

Dorothy Parker, "Re-enter Margot Asquith - A Masterpiece from the French," The New Yorker, October 22, 1927.

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