A Quote by Herbert Croly
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
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The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
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