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Famous Leonard Woolf Quotes
Source: Downhill All The Way: An Autobiography Of The Years 1919 To 1939
“At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.”
“There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.”
Source: Barbarians Within and Without
“The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.”
“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
Source: Barbarians Within and Without
“You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.”