Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons. (James Russell Lowell)

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

James Russell Lowell

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