Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey

"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it."
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"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it."
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"The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization."
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"Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived."
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"If this is dying I don't think much of it."
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"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
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"It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed determination of an indomitable will."
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"A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile"
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