Ernest Macmillan Collection

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    It’s up the spout and Charley Wag
    With wipes and tickers and what not
    Until the squeezer nips your scrag,
    Booze and the blowens cop the lot.
    —William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

    Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
    —Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)

    No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
    Ben Elton (b. 1959)