The Unsaved: The Grand Inquisitor and Flying Fish (p. 123)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
“Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.”
Osbert Sitwell (1945).
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