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Marjorie Bowen
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“Even a fool can deceive a man — if he be a bigger fool than himself.”
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“... what a rope of sand we are without a leader ...”
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“Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.”
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“It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.”
Marjorie Bowen, English writer, historian
(1885 - 1952)
Real name: Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell Long. She also wrote as Joseph Shearing (see Shearing quotes under that name), George Runnell Preedy, Margaret Campbell, John Winch, and Robert Paye.