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NOVELISTS > author > Margot Asquith
The ingrained idea...
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The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . . There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
Source: My Impressions of America, ch. 17 (1922).
-- Margot Asquith, (Feb 2 1864-1945), English author; She was an eccentric, outspoken and shrewd influence on social, fashionable English life.