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"It was so pleasant to have a hot drink nearby while she read and read, in her quiet little room. Books opened up new worlds to her and introduced her to extraordinary people who lived lives full of adventure. She traveled on old sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Kipling. She traveled the world while sitting in her room in an English village."

Cromer, who declared bluntly that "the true future of Egypt [...] does not lie in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which concerns only the Egyptians by birth [...] but in that of a broad cosmopolitanism".
The irony of this comment with all the anti immigration policies in europe😿

Da qualche parte ho già ricordato l’aneddoto: accompagnavo a Stoccolma Henri Pirenne; appena arrivati, mi disse: “Cosa andiamo a vedere prima di tutto? Pare ci sia un nuovo palazzo del municipio. Cominciamo da quello”. Poi, come se volesse anticipare il mio stupore, aggiunse: “Se fossi stato un antiquario, avrei occhi solo per le cose vecchie. Ma sono uno storico. È per questo che amo la vita”.