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We Are Divided Of Course Between Liking To Feel The Past Strange And Liking To Feel It Familiar.

The Advantage, The Luxury, As Well As The Torment And Responsibility Of The Novelist, Is That There Is No Limit To What He May Attempt As An Executant - No Limit To His Possible Experiments, Efforts, Discoveries, Successes.

It Takes A Great Deal Of History To Produce A Little Literature.

Most English Talk Is A Quadrille In A Sentry-box.

It Is Altogether An Extraordinary Growing, Swarming, Glittering, Pushing, Chattering, Good-natured, Cosmopolitan Place, And Perhaps In Some Ways The Best Imitation Of Paris That Can Be Found (with A Great Originality Of Its Own).