“Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.”
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“She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to.”
― Orient Express
― Orient Express
“If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the best of each generation, while time curbed the artist's pride and the Philistine's vulgarity, and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.”
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