Sir Ernest Macmillan

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    “Give me the critic bred in Nature’s school,
    Who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule;
    Who feeling’s honest dictates still obeys,
    And dares, without a precedent, to praise.”
    —Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)

    “What have I done for you,
    England, my England?
    What is there I would not do,
    England, my own?”
    —William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

    “As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.”
    —Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)