The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.
—Nancy Mitford
Topics: Family
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away
—Nancy Mitford
Topics: Children, One liners
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
—Nancy Mitford
Topics: Aristocracy
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