Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.

 

Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.
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1927. Quoted in Sir Charles Petrie, The Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain: Vol. II (Cassell, 1940), p. 321.

 

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