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• Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with… — Charles Dickens
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• We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried… — Daphne du Maurier
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• Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned… — Bertrand Russell

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