Century British

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“To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,
Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)

“In New York—whose subway trains in particular have been “tattooed” with a brio and an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame—not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.... Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the “haves.””
—Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. “Cleaning and Cleansing,” Myths and Memories (1986)