But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything.

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of …”

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civil…”

“Я верю в величие нации.— Оно только пережиток предприимчивости и напористости.—…”

“One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every …”