Mary Boleyn/sister%e2%80%99s Rise To Power

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    Toll on, thou passing bell;
    Ring out my doleful knell;
    —George Boleyn (d. 1536)

    I don’t say ‘tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
    Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    It has never been in my power to sustain ... I can pass swiftly from one effect to another, but I cannot fix one, and dwell on it, with that superb concentration which seems to me the special attribute of the tragic actress.
    Ellen Terry (1847–1928)