“Everyone has heard of Canterbury if only because they murder archbishops there.”
Michael Powell (1905–1990) English film director
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“The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I'll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It's a comforting thought.”
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