Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth c… — John McGahern

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

John McGahernWriter · Irish · 1934 – 2006

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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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