"Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border."

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Source : Rose Macaulay (2011). “Told by an Idiot”, p.66, A&C Black

Rose Macaulay

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