"A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of Â£40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely."

-- James Fenton

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“Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you or not is those metrics.”
“The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.”
“I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.”

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“Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.”
“Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.”
“There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.”
“There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.”
“Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.”

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