John Arbuthnot Fisher

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    “His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.”
    —Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957)

    “All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
    —John Arbuthnot (1667–1735)

    “Our family talked a lot at table, and only two subjects were taboo: politics and personal troubles. The first was sternly avoided because Father ran a nonpartisan daily in a small town, with some success, and did not wish to express his own opinions in public, even when in private.”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)