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Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Leonard Woolf
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Ask a ferryman or a toll-keeper how many visitors come through daily on an average, and with an appearance of great intellectual discomfort he assures you the number varies so much.
Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp
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