"It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else."

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Source : Elinor Lipman (2007). “My Latest Grievance”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Elinor Lipman

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