Fortified Manor House

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    “Our rural village life was a purifying, uplifting influence that fortified us against the later impacts of urbanization; Church and State, because they were separated and friendly, had spiritual and ethical standards that were mutually enriching; freedom and discipline, individualism and collectivity, nature and nurture in their interaction promised an ever stronger democracy. I have no illusions that those simpler, happier days can be resurrected.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    “Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?”
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