Sir William Rootes

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“When every one is somebodee, Then no one’s anybody!”
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“People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.”
—Herbert Beerbohm, Sir Tree (1853–1917)

““Can’t” is what our grandparents said about the airplane.”
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“No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man’s ego like an automobile.”
—Sir William Rootes (1894–1964)