Nothing matters very much and very few things matter at all. — Arthur James Balfour · Skopia

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Nothing matters very much and very few things matter at all.

Arthur James Balfour

1931

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Balfour, Arthur James. Quoted in Discreet Memoirs, written by Lady Clodagh Anson. G. Bateman Blackshaw, 1931.

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