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| d26ca92 | Well, their piety is more evolved," said Mrs. Pace. "In America we have only two forms, as Matthew Arnold said: the bitter and the smug. In France, it appears, there is a third type, the worldly." | Diane Johnson | ||
| a088390 | Yet--some Frenchman had written--"absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones." | Diane Johnson |