"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.“


-Virginia Woolf

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

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