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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
Irving BabbittAbout author
- Author's profession: Critic
- Nationality: american
- Born: August 2, 1865
- Died: July 15, 1933
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And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small caf in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.
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