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COURTESY OF LEEDS CASTLE
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In this corner of the shires, elderly ladies in bullet-proof tweed still wobble down the lanes on dreadnought bicycles.
— Daily Telegraph
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I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire; God wouldn’t trust an Englishman in the dark.
— Duncan Spaeth
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I think we may say we put India on the map. Hardly any of one’s friends in England had ever even heard of India before we went there, you know.
— Nancy Mitford
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If there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s snobbism. People who pretend they’re superior make it so much harder for those of us who really are.
— Hyacinth Bucket
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