Louisa Montagu Douglas

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    A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
    Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
    —Norman Douglas (1868–1952)