The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation. Ophelia Field

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      All the good talk over the pies and wine, Congreve's wit, Wharton's fascinating impudence, and Addison's quiet humour, is lost forever without record. The Kit-Cat had no Boswell.

      G. M. TREVELYAN, The Times, 10 March 1945

      Persons in great Station have seldom their true Characters drawn till several Years after their Deaths. Their personal Friendships and Enmities must cease, and the Parties they were engaged in be at an end…[I]f an English Man considers the great Ferment into which our Political World is thrown at present, and how intensively it is heated in all its parts, he cannot suppose that it will cool again in less than three hundred Years.

      JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator, no. 101, 25 June 1711

      Remember that a free State is only a more numerous and more powerful Club…

      SIR WILLIAM JONES, The Principles of Government, in a Dialogue between a Scholar and a Peasant, 1783