Curzon is an intolerable person to do business with-pompous, dictatorial and outrageously conceited.... Really he is an intolerable person, pig-headed, pompous and vindictive too! Yet an able, strong man with it all. (George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston)

Curzon is an intolerable person to do business with-pompous, dictatorial and outrageously conceited.... Really he is an intolerable person, pig-headed, pompous and vindictive too! Yet an able, strong man with it all.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

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