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“I suppose it is true that nations get the politicians they deserve.”
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“City of rest! — as it seems to our modern senses, — how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!”
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“I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.”
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“Nice! you're so terribly nice you can't do anything other people do.”
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“Like all inexperienced people, Toby tended to make all-or-nothing judgments.”
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“Cecilia's lunch party, having heard through the open door the first phrase of the interlude, had exchanged less than a glance and, all raising their voices, maintained a strenuous conversation till she came back. They were not English for nothing.”
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“Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?”
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“... many a fervid man / Writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones ... ”