Sir John Scott

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“The big blue eyes are shut which saw wrong clothing
And favourite fields and coverts from a horse;”
—Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

“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)

“My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)